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Desert Island Discs
Daniel Barenboim
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Sue Lawley's castaway is conductor Daniel Barenboim. Show more
Birtwistle's Deep Time continues his fascination with time in a sweeping new work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien.
Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation to a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now.
Daniel Barenboim conducts the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra in Jörg Widmann's Con brio, an 'exercise in fury and rhythmic insistence’.
Legendary pianist Martha Argerich – who celebrates her 75th birthday this year – joins the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra to perform Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.1. Show more
With the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
14 minutes
With the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
With the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
West–Eastern Divan Orch. conducted by Daniel Barenboim with Guy Braunstein & Kian Soltani
35 minutes
West–Eastern Divan Orch. directed by Daniel Barenboim with Guy Braunstein & Kian Soltani
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim
The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Ravel's Boléro Show more
Two works composed to explore the musical junctions of East and West Show more
Composed to explore the musical junctions of East and West Show more