| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 3-Feb-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Embodying Beethoven's Ninth: Barenboim and WEDO conclude at Carnegie |
.jpg) Unity over division, peace over war, a higher cause for humanity: no symphony better expresses the mission of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra than Beethoven’s Ninth, and no orchestra plays this symphony with greater emotional power. With Daniel Barenboim on the rostrum, this symphony’s composed, collective redemption becomes at once entirely natural and entirely miraculous.Read full review... | |
| 2-Feb-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Beethoven's Sixth and Seventh from Barenboim and WEDO at Carnegie |
.jpg) Two down, two to go. Whereas at the 2012 BBC Proms Daniel Barenboim and the West-Easter Divan Orchestra paired the Pastoral symphony with the Fifth, just as Beethoven programmed them in the infamously long concert that premièred them both, here the Pastoral prefaced the Seventh.
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| 31-Jan-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | What a difference a day makes: Barenboim and WEDO continue at Carnegie |
 “Daniel Barenboim can be a frustrating... conductor”, I wrote after the first concert in this series of four, in which he and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are presenting all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies. As if to prove the point, to follow that stunning concert of First, Eighth and Fifth, these forces delivered a maddeningly inconsistent Fourth and a far loftier but hardly flawless Eroica.Read full review... | |
| 30-Jan-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | WEDO and Barenboim start a Beethoven cycle at Carnegie |
 Daniel Barenboim can be a frustrating – and frustrated – conductor. When his grand plans don’t quite come off, he can become irritable, his gestures more didactic and his brow ever more distractedly mopped. Not so in this concert, however. By the closing cadences of Beethoven's Fifth he was singing along, preempting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’s deliciously delayed and eternally held final chord with an explosive “Baaah!” from the podium.
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