Artist:
Daniel Barenboim
Title:
Daniel Barenboim: Schumann
Year Of Release:
2023
Label:
UMG Recordings, Inc.
Genre:
Classical
Quality:
FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 1:43:51
Total Size: 338 MB
WebSite:
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Tracklist:01. 1. Préambule
02. 2. Pierrot
03. 3. Arlequin
04. 4. Valse noble
05. 5. Eusebius
06. 6. Florestan
07. 7. Coquette
08. 8. Réplique - Sphinxes
09. 9. Papillons
10. 10. A.S.C.H.-S.C.H.A. (Lettres dansantes)
11. 11. Chiarina
12. 12. Chopin
13. 13. Estrella
14. 14. Reconnaissance
15. 15. Pantalon et Colombine
16. 16. Valse allemande
17. 17. Paganini
18. 18. Aveu
19. 19. Pause
20. 20. Pause
21. 21. Marche des "Davidsbündler" contre les Philistins
22. 1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
23. 2. Kuriose Geschichte
24. 3. Hasche-Mann
25. 4. Bittendes Kind
26. 5. Glückes genug
27. 6. Wichtige Begebenheit
28. 7. Träumerei
29. 8. Am Kamin
30. 9. Ritter vom Steckenpferd
31. 10. Fast zu ernst
32. 11. Fürchtenmachen
33. 12. Kind im Einschlummern
34. 13. Der Dichter spricht
35. 1. Allegro (Vivace assai)
36. 2. Romanze (Piuttosto lento)
37. 3. Scherzino
38. 4. Intermezzo (Colla più grande energia)
39. 5. Finale (Il più vivace possibile)
40. 1. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legenden-Ton
41. 2. Mäßig. Durchaus energisch - Etwas langsamer - Vielbewegter
42. 3. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten - Etwas bewegter
Daniel Barenboim is a conductor and pianist of top international stature, known for an extraordinarily large orchestral and operatic repertoire. He is the general music director and chief conductor for life of the Staatsoper Berlin in Germany.
Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires on November 15, 1942, into a family of Ukrainian Jewish descent. Barenboim's mother was his first piano teacher. He later studied with his father, Enrique Barenboim, who was an eminent music professor. After playing for the noted violinist Adolf Busch, who was impressed by his talent, Daniel made his debut recital at the age of seven. In 1951, he played at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and observed Igor Markevitch's conducting class. The family moved to Israel in 1952; two years later, Barenboim went back to Salzburg for a conducting course with Markevitch, piano studies with Edwin Fischer, and chamber music performance with Enrico Mainardi. He studied conducting with Carlo Zecchi at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, also attending Nadia Boulanger's music theory and composition class at Fontainebleau. His U.S. debut was at New York's Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1957, in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Symphony of the Air.
Debuts with leading orchestras included the London Symphony Orchestra (New York, 1968), Berlin Philharmonic (1969), and New York Philharmonic (1970). In 1967, Barenboim married the brilliant cellist Jacqueline Du Pré, with whom he made several exceptional recital recordings. Unfortunately, this partnership ended when Du Pré contracted multiple sclerosis, which forced her to end her playing career in 1972. She died in 1987. Barenboim began a long association with the Deutsche Grammophon label in 1972, and the following year, issued a recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E flat major ("Romantic") with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has maintained long relationships with both that orchestra and with Bruckner's music. In 1982, Barenboim issued an album of music by Ravel with the Orchestre de Paris. He has guest conducted virtually all of the world's leading orchestras.
In 1989, he was named Sir Georg Solti's successor as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1992, Barenboim became music director of the Staatsoper Berlin, then named chief conductor for life by its orchestra in 2002. In 1999, with Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, Barenboim co-founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a summer youth orchestra designed to foster understanding and cooperation, and he established the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. Devoted to the training of young Arab and Israeli musicians, the school opened in 2016. A recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra appeared in 2013, and the group has spawned several young musicians with international careers, sometimes performing and recording with Barenboim.
Barenboim has a rich recorded repertoire as a conductor, pianist, accompanist, and chamber music player. Interestingly, as a pianist, he tends to focus on Mozart, Beethoven, and the early Romantics, while as a conductor, he favors later Romantic music, particularly Brahms and Bruckner (he has won a medal from the Bruckner Society of America). Barenboim's recorded output continued to be abundant through his ninth decade, including not only standard repertory but such novelties as On My New Piano (2016), an album devoted to the capabilities of an instrument custom-made for Barenboim by builder Chris Maene and based on a piano owned by Liszt. As a conductor, he continued to undertake lengthy, difficult scores by the likes of Bruckner and Mahler. His 2017 recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the Staatskapelle Berlin was critically acclaimed. He often issued more than a dozen recordings in the course of a single year, and by 2022, his recorded output included well over 500 releases. Early that year, he already had three albums on the docket for release: an album of Mozart and Strauss oboe concertos with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and oboist Cristina Gómez Godoy, an album of piano encores, and the annual Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert, which he has conducted multiple times. © James Manheim