Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...

Few musicians in the world are as intimately familiar with Beethoven's piano sonatas as Daniel Barenboim, who has been exploring these works since the earliest days of his career - a musical novel in ...

Barenboim’s first Schubert concert focused attention on his newly designed piano, which had perhaps too much power for the modest D664 sonata In four recitals spread across a week, Daniel Barenboim is ...

Daniel Barenboim with audience onstage at the Royal Festival Hall last night If you’re going to do that, Schubert is a good target. Anyone who has had to tackle the composer’s music at the keyboard ...

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly filmed ...

Most of us seem to have spent much of lockdown earlier this year failing to get anywhere with optimistic to-do lists. But Daniel Barenboim isn’t, of course, most people, so it should come as no ...

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movements: C (L104) Daniel Barenboim, Piano Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movements: D minor, Kk9 (L413): also arr Tausig as 'Pastorale ...

Daniel Barenboim is busier than ever. The world-class conductor, brilliant pianist and campaigner for Middle-Eastern peace through the revolutionary East-West Divan Orchestra is in New York on the eve ...

Conceived in 2011, the Barenboim piano has taken 18 months and 4,000 people hours of work to build – and may one day go into wider production “I’ve fallen in love with it,” beamed Daniel Barenboim as ...