Barenboim on Beethoven - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Genius & Destiny
In this opening episode, Barenboim draws on excerpts from piano sonatas, concertos, and symphonies by Beethoven - comparing them with superficially similar works by Mozart.
New Dimensions
Daniel Barenboim shines the spotlight on Beethoven's formal innovations - just as he refused to show subservience to his aristocratic patrons, he also flouted convention in music.
Form - The Waldstein
Daniel Barenboim turns to the monumental Waldstein sonata - one of the most musically ingenious and technically demanding of the 32 piano sonatas.
The Appassionata
Barenboim's fiery interpretation of the Appassionata sonata, a spectacular encapsulation of the synthesis of extremes that he discussed in the third episode.
The Working Process
Daniel Barenboim turns his attention to the Leonore Overtures Nos 2 and 3, elucidating the path that Beethoven took from one to the other and the musical reasons for his revisions.
The Fourth Piano Concerto - 1st Movement
The composer's Piano Concerto No 4, a soulful and contemplative work that finds Beethoven at his most poetic, and a piece holding a special place in the lore of his life and career.
The Fourth Piano Concerto - 2nd & 3rd Movements
The remarkable Fourth Piano Concerto concludes with Daniel Barenboim alongside Sir Adrian Boult and the New Philharmonia Orchestra.
The A Major Cello Sonata - Opus 69
The effortless musicality and irrepressible joy that have made generations of music lovers fall in love with the A Major Cello Sonata, performed here by Jacqueline du Pré.
The Eroica
Daniel Barenboim turns his attention to Beethoven's Third Symphony, the Eroica, a watershed moment in the evolution of Beethoven's artistry and, indeed, of music itself.
The Symphonist
An up-close look at the singular qualities with which Beethoven imbued all his work - the sheer breadth of his expression and his sensitivity for colour and sound.
Sonata No 32 Op 111 - 1st Movement
Beethoven's final piano sonata's first movement, with its many differences in tonal and formal expansiveness, motivic spontaneity, and compositional architecture.
Sonata No 32 Op 111 - 2nd Movement
The second movement of Sonata No 32, which presents a vision of eternity undisturbed and a spiritual expression of pure innocence consciously won through the lessons of experience.
The Fifth Symphony
A spirited performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with the young Daniel Barenboim at the helm of the New Philharmonia Orchestra.
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