Daniel Barenboim

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in...

Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account “I follow a voice within me”, we enter...

The child prodigy turns 60! At the tender age of 13, Anne-Sophie Mutter was discovered by star conductor Herbert von Karajan. An unprecedented world...

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Legendary conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim speaks more candidly than he has ever done before about his life and music. Told entirely through...

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo. The Count Di Luna...

The ever popular New Year's Concert from Vienna returns in another sparkling performance, broadcast live to over 50 countries! Daniel Barenboim makes...

Hundreds of children and youth orchestras around the world are emerging musical inspired by the Venezuelan phenomenon known as "The System." This...

This film gains a unique insight into the nine symphonies, as well as the musicians' views on the difficulties and delights of performing these...

European Concert 1994 From the Staatstheater Meiningen.

This recording features the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival in 2010, in which the Festival celebrated its 90th anniversary and the 50th...

The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart's last 8 piano concertos....

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie...

Portrait of an exceptional musical talent and one of opera’s biggest stars, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. With interviews from her illustrious...

Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, András Schiff and the English Chamber Orchestra play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K271...

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in concert in Berlin, Vienna, and New York. Also included is a 22 minute documentary on the...

The music is not Beethoven's most familiar, but it is absolutely charming. The concerto is appealing in its melodic material and the intricate...

Daniel Barenboim conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the 2014 News Year's Concert, an annual celebration that showcases classics by the venerable...

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude to Act III Sir Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Johannes Brahms: Symphony...

Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K.385 “Haffner”; Horn concerto No. 1, K.412; Piano concerto No. 22, K.482; Symphony Nr. 36, K.425 “Linz-Symphony”

Otto Nicolai: Overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Edward Elgar: Falstaff in C minor, Op. 68 Piotr Tchaikovsky:...

Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 73 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 73 Documentary...

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 15; Piano Quartet No. 1 arranged for orchestra by A. Schoenberg

Guiseppe Verdi: Overture from "La forza del destino" Carlo's recitative and aria from "Don Carlos" Hector Berlioz: Excerpts from "La Damnation de...

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve,...

This performance in May 1970, at St. John’s Smith Square, was filmed before the onset of Jacqueline du Pré’s illness in the early days of the...

Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969. The Trout...

The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis,...

The struggles of the world’s Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this...

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the...

The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart's last 8 piano concertos....

In this recording, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim tackles the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig...

With family and friends present, Daniel Barenboim celebrates his seventieth birthday in the company of Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He...

Chopin Year 2010 coincides with the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboims stage début, and as a pianist he has decided to devote this year to the...

Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers works: This time he focuses his sharp intellect on all...

With nearly 450 years of tradition, the Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Daniel Barenboim has served as its music...

The Süddeutsche Zeitung summed up this highly acclaimed performance of Bruckner's monumental Fifth Symphony by saying: Both Bruckners belief in God,...

This is a film that encapsulates the essence of a great pianistic age that married virtuosity and musicianship with the most thrilling aspect of...

Anton Bruckner’s 6th Symphony was written between 1879 and 1881: a very happy time in his life. Unlike most of Bruckner’s symphonies, the 6th was...

“Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim’s speeds…. The flexibility of...

In Anton Bruckner’s 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousness and profound solemnity, a music which speaks...

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin....

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

Barenboim presents master classes with the world's most notable young pianists, where the legendary man imparts his wisdom to the next generation.

If Daniel Barenboim is not the world's greatest living classical musician he is certainly the most versatile. In a career spanning more than 50...

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Beethoven and Brahms Violin Concertos with the soloist Itzhak Perlman.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in performances of Beethoven's 'Triple Concerto' and 'Choral Fantasy'. Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo...

Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting...

The conductor of this New Year’s Eve concert is Daniel Barenboim, one of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s oldest friends. He also takes on the role...

Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic,...

To mark Beethoven's 250th birthday, the documentary sheds light on the composer's private side, linking his writings with his music in an original...

Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c)...

Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Recorded live at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 26 December 2006

Sibelius's solitary concerto is one of the most passionate tests for the violin virtuoso, one to which Maxim Vengerov is more than equal. He captures...

Carefully composed portrait of prominent modern composer Elliott Carter (1908-1912). Scheffer depicts both the person and the development in his...

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve,...

A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive...

To celebrate the centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth, ARTE invites you to (re)watch an extract from the opening concert of the Pierre Boulez Hall in...

The Barenboim-Said Music Academy in Berlin is an experiment. Its main aim is to bring together young musicians from the Middle East: Jews, Muslims,...

Yo-Yo Ma narrates a documentary about the remarkable cellist Jacqueline du Pré, whose life and career were cut short by multiple sclerosis.

Frédéric Chopin was born on 1 March 1810 in a small village near Warsaw, and on the eve of the 200th anniversary of this date Daniel Barenboim gave...

A Verdi Requiem with a dream line-up of soloists and the forces of La Scala, Milan, directed by one of the greatest maestros of our time. Preceding...

The programme includes Mozart, Schubert and Stravinsky.

Knowledge is the Beginning is the story of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, where young Arabs and Jews perform and live side by side. It is a film...

For Palestinian expatriate Edward Said, the return to his homeland amounted to a painful inquiry into his past. This program captures the...

Documentary film about Vladimir Ashkenazy's and Daniel Barenboim's 1966 performance of Mozart's Concerto for 2 Pianos in E-flat major with the...

Violinist Michael Barenboim and cellist Kian Soltani are the soloists at this year's concert of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Salzburg. The...

What if chamber music returned to the drawing rooms? This double programme reconnects with the origins of the genre by inviting audiences into the...

Petroc Trelawny hosts the traditional start to the year with a concert live from the golden hall of the Musikverein in Vienna.

A memorable event: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim in a piano duo in Buenos Aires! Together, the two friends had already performed almost...

Returning to the archives of this memorable recital, from which it presents numerous excerpts, this documentary is punctuated with testimonials from...

This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the...

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele....

Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma, who recorded the masterpiece Beethoven Triple Concerto with Karajan over 40 years ago, now release a new recording...

The Berlin State Opera is back at its place of origin: Unter den Linden! After extensive renovations, it was reopened with Schumann's scenes from...

Documentary and concert recording by Christopher Nupen

The world-renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim celebrated his 80th birthday in 2022. Together with the Chinese star pianist Lang Lang and...

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent creatures,...

Massenet's opera centres on its charming but contrary heroine, the vivacious young Manon who longs for luxury and excitement. We first encounter her...

A tribute to marriage coming from a bachelor is a tad suspicious. But for Beethoven the idealization of the woman-bride was heartfelt and sincere. It...

A brand new production of ‘’Tannhäuser’’ at the Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz,...

Rediscover one of the world’s most famous operas with Dmitri Tcherniakov’s modern staging at the Staatsoper Berlin. Performed repeatedly at the...

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Wagner’s last...

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress...