Barenboim jumps in at Granada
mainWe hear that Daniel Barenboim surprised organisers of the Granada Festival by offering to play a benefit recital for the Red Cross on Friday, 24th July.
Granada has a fantastic piano lineup: Krystian Zimerman, Grigori Sokolov, Martha Argerich, Igor Levit, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Bertrand Chamayou and Javier Perianes.
He just didn’t want to feel left out.
of course he didn’t, so why not 😉
He also may well have already been planning to visit the Barenboim-Said Foundation down the road in Seville, as he does most summers. (The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra often prepare their summer tours there too.)
you must be joking in all the years i was a memberof the teaching staff he never introduced himself to the staff or students seville is only a small part of the barenbiom saidfranchise
barenboim doing a benefit concert for free i dont think so granada music festival 25000 euros this guy dosent do anything for free
It’s like a red rag to him.
Ashtray on the keyboard?!?!
rather than ash on the
Saw him there with his orchestra doing Bruckner a couple years back. Maybe, the fact that he has a history at the festival also played into it.
if you need to offer yourself – it is a bad prognostic sign.
He is a sad shadow of his former self pianistically. This 2017 concert from Munich’s Gasteig, where he played Beethoven’s E-flat major Concerto, is almost embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2O8Z6IuKS4
DB bashing is so tired.
There is also this piece of evidence:
https://slippedisc.com/2019/10/watch-barenboim-plays-schubert-at-jacques-chiracs-funeral/
Has it become a criminal investigation?!
So what? Are you investigating a murder on CCTV?
You do it instead then as you’re better and know best? Armchair pianists or musicians or fake critics are a total pain. They break many a good musician by going through some youtube recording as if performers are robots, or not human or may just have a bad night. And we are now 2020 not 2017! Please give us a break from endless DB bashing.
And what’s your problem with this concert? Is it a problem that he has played 20.000 concert the last 65 years? Ever heard Edwin Fischer? Would you bitchslap such a master too?….
Looking forward to hearing you in the real life.
What petty people here!
Yes, very petty, insensitive and experts in their armchairs who have never got up and done anything of worth except criticise, which is very boring.
Might also have something to do with the new director of the festival. Experienced, very active, well connected, a good organiser. It helps.
Never one to miss a passing bandwagon, it would seem.
Hopefully his playing will be better than the excruciating performance he gave at Jacques Chirac’s funeral.
Exactly.
Humanitarian when out on stage.
Abusive when backstage stage.
… a typical narcissist.
Barenboim is sold out!