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2023-11-12 16:19:17
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonMutual respect and conviviality were the watchwords in this scintillating performance from Michael Barenboim’s Israeli-Arab chamber groupOn the day when hundreds of thousands of people marched through London calling for a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Gaza conflict, across town nine musicians quietly made a similar point. Ever since its foundation by Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian scholar Edward Said in 1999, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has been as much about the message as the music. At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the orchestra’s chamber ensemble – led by the co-founder’s son, concertmaster Michael Barenboim – let the music do the talking, interspersing masterpieces by Mendelssohn and Beethoven with palate-cleansing bursts of late Elliott Carter.At the heart of the first half was a spirited account of Mendelssohn’s B-flat string quintet. Barenboim’s violin soared sweetly over a cushion of strings, warmed by the addition of that extra viola, in […]
2023-11-07 17:07:23
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2023-11-06 09:08:00
Michael Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan EnsembleThe West-Eastern Divan Orchestra was founded by the Palestinian author-scholar Edward W. Said and Israeli conductor-pianist Daniel Barenboim as a result of discussions on music, culture, and humanity and the realisation the urgent need for an alternative way to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, aiming to bring young Israeli and Arabic musicians together in shared endeavour. Sadly, the orchestra's ethos seems to be even more needed than ever. To celebrate the orchestra's 20th anniversary, violinist Michael Barenboim (son of Daniel and the orchestra's concertmaster) founded the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble which draws on players from the orchestra, and the group made its first tour in 2020.On Saturday 11 November 2023, the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble appears at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in a programme that mixes old and new. Alongside joyful charm of Mendelssohn's String Quintet No. 2 in B flat, Op. 87 and Beethoven's early Septet in E Flat, Op. 20 (where […]
2023-10-30 17:47:00
Neuburger/Boulez Ensemble/Roth - Debussy and Manoury, 29 October 2023
Pierre Boulez Saal Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp Manoury: Passacaille pour Tokyo Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano Manoury: Grammaires du sonore Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano)Boulez EnsembleFrançois-Xavier Roth (conductor)Images: Jakob TillmannIntelligent and revealing programming is always a joy. François-Xavier Roth ranks highly among those conductors regularly offering it. When married to equally intelligent and revealing performances it becomes all the more a joy, such as in this concert from the Boulez Ensemble, founded by Daniel Barenboim to include members of the Staatskapelle Berlin and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Two ensemble pieces by Philippe Manoury were prefaced by two late Debussy sonatas, the formal implications of which were highly suggestive and felt to be such for the Manoury works. First, we heard Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola, and harp, an extraordinary work I do not think I have ever heard live before. The combination may be unusual, but surely is […]
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