The conductor Daniel Barenboim explores the political and spiritual power of what many consider the greatest symphony.

Daniel Barenboim has withdrawn from subscription performances of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jan. 20, 21, 22 and 25 at Symphony Center.

The orchestra's performances of the nine Beethoven symphonies at the Proms have been an event, even if Barenboim's conducting priorities have provoked some critical pursed lips and the hiss of vitriol ...

On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the ...

Daniel Barenboim directs his first Beethoven symphony cycle in London and becomes the first conductor since Henry Wood in 1942 to survey all nine symphonies in a ...

Works by Mundry, Wagner. Oct. 11-12. Barenboim, conductor; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Waltraud Meier, Christian Franz, Nadja Michael, Andreas Schmidt, John Tomlinson, vocal soloists.

This is not political, Daniel Barenboim says, admitting that he knows few will agree when they learn about his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. How can a project that requires Israelis and Arabs to ...

Daniel Barenboim's complete cycle of Beethoven Symphonies reaches its climactic conclusion tonight. The Ninth 'Choral' Symphony, with its passionate vision of human reconciliation, is performed at ...

Beethoven was a bit of an Olympian too, conductor Daniel Barenboim said as he prepared to conduct the Ninth Symphony and its famous "Ode to Joy" in London on Friday, the day of the official ...

The orchestra's performances of the nine Beethoven symphonies at the Proms have been an event, even if Barenboim's conducting priorities have provoked some critical pursed lips and the hiss of vitriol ...

Additionally, Barenboim speaks of how the symphonies have been both used and abused for political purposes. Their tour culminates in a performance of the 9th Symphony, next to the demilitarized ...