Performing four concertos of different styles and periods is an extraordinary feat. Alexandre Tharaud takes up the challenge with a mix of Bach, one of Mozart’s major works and a composition by Franco-Argentine composer Oscar Strasnoy.

Following their journey through Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas over the last two seasons, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin embark on the complete symphonies. This first in a four-part concert series concludes with the emblematic...

Daniel Barenboim’s complete cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies continues with the Fourth—a pure jubilation in music—and the Eroica, which owes part of its renown to its powerfully evocative funeral march.

Daniel Barenboim juxtaposes two of Beethoven’s most illustrious symphonies, countering the idyllic and impressive natural landscape of the Pastoral with the celebration of rhythm in the Seventh, ‘the apotheosis of dance’.

Daniel Barenboim concludes his Complete Beethoven Symphonies with the Ninth—a work whose aura transcends music with its Ode to Joy based on Schiller’s poem. Of Beethoven’s masterpiece, Wagner famously said, ‘The last symphony...

A diva? A term that very much applies to Anna Netrebko in its original sense—a claim unreservedly borne out by the singer’s latest album, released in 2018 by Deutsche Gramophon and called simply… Diva.