Conductor Daniel Barenboim already had a feel for Edward Elgar’s music in the 1970s when he recorded many of the English composer’s orchestral works, including the Cello Concerto with his wife ...

Discover more about his life and music. Listen to Daniel Barenboim’s recording of Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Falstaff, the latest release in his acclaimed Elgar series, right now. Daniel ...

Daniel Barenboim is the keenest and most distinguished of them. He’s been championing Elgar’s music since the 1970s ... On the level of orchestral wizardry, this piece beats even the Enigma ...

Everything feels ‘in the moment’, a quality of improvisation like music created in the playing ... a delight from start to finish.' 'Barenboim’s long association with, and love for, Elgar has ...

Daniel Barenboim ... political statements most musicians avoid. Mr. Barenboim, 76, has long been considered untouchable in Berlin, where he is music director of the Staatsoper — the city ...

MILAN – No one was more surprised than Daniel Barenboim ... 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 anymore," Barenboim said. “I have been hit, but I feel well, and I can make music. I am very happy making ...

Daniel Barenboim is a classical music phenomenon. The Israeli-Argentinian, born in 1942, was a child prodigy who began playing the piano in public when he was seven years old. He has sustained that ...

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in 2006 during his final appearance as music director of the company at Symphony Center. A child prodigy ...

Daniel Barenboim spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about his lifelong passion for music, in a conversation recorded in 2008 from Milan. Conductor Daniel Barenboim rehearses with members of the West-Eastern ...