Pianist, conductor, and humanitarian Daniel Barenboim is 80 today. Only within the past weeks did Barenboim announce that he would have to scale back on his concertizing, due to health reasons (citing a “serious neurological condition”). Let’s hope the hiatus is merely temporary.
Happy birthday, Maestro. Get well soon, and many happy returns!
Barenboim at 12 (playing Scarlatti, Chopin, and Kabalevsky)
Superstar “Trout” Quintet, with Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pré, and Zubin Mehta (on the double bass!)
Playing Mendelssohn’s “Songs without Words,” complete
With Jackie, off the cuff – and on the piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOok22pCErM
Barenboim plays Beethoven
Barenboim conducts Bruckner
“Tristan und Isolde,” complete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdjFBW-S3z0
Encores at Carnegie Hall, with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra