Barenboim on Beethoven - Season 1

Barenboim on Beethoven - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes13
DatesDec 19, 2020 - Dec 19, 2020

Episodes

Genius & Destiny
Season 1Episode 130 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
New Dimensions
Season 1Episode 235 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
Form - The Waldstein
Season 1Episode 330 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The Appassionata
Season 1Episode 430 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The Working Process
Season 1Episode 535 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The Fourth Piano Concerto - 1st Movement
Season 1Episode 630 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The Fourth Piano Concerto - 2nd & 3rd Movements
Season 1Episode 730 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The A Major Cello Sonata - Opus 69
Season 1Episode 835 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The Eroica
Season 1Episode 930 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The Symphonist
Season 1Episode 1035 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
Sonata No 32 Op 111 - 1st Movement
Season 1Episode 1130 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
Sonata No 32 Op 111 - 2nd Movement
Season 1Episode 1235 min

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.

Dec 19, 2020
The Fifth Symphony
Season 1Episode 1345 min

The Fifth Symphony

A spirited performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with the young Daniel Barenboim at the helm of the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

Dec 19, 2020

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