Daniel Barenboim: Encores (Vinyl LP) | Deutsche Grammophon 4861936

Daniel Barenboim: Encores (Vinyl LP)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 4861936

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 6th May 2022

Contents

Works

Albeniz, Isaac

Espana: Album Leaves (6), op.165 B37 (Seis hojas de album)
» II Tango

Chopin, Frederic

Etudes (12), op.10
» no.4 in C sharp minor
» no.6 in E flat minor
» no.8 in F major
Etudes (12), op.25
» no.1 in A flat major
» no.2 in F minor
» no.7 in C sharp minor
Nocturnes (21)
» no.5 in F sharp major, op.15 no.2

Debussy, Claude

Suite bergamasque
» III Clair de Lune

Liszt, Franz

Consolations (6), S172
» no.3 in D flat major

Schubert, Franz

Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
» no.3 in G flat major
Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780
» no.3 in F minor

Schumann, Robert

Fantasiestucke (8), op.12
» no.1 Des Abends
» no.2 Aufschwung
» no.3 Warum?
» no.7 Traumes Wirren
Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei

Artists

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Works

Albeniz, Isaac

Espana: Album Leaves (6), op.165 B37 (Seis hojas de album)
» II Tango

Chopin, Frederic

Etudes (12), op.10
» no.4 in C sharp minor
» no.6 in E flat minor
» no.8 in F major
Etudes (12), op.25
» no.1 in A flat major
» no.2 in F minor
» no.7 in C sharp minor
Nocturnes (21)
» no.5 in F sharp major, op.15 no.2

Debussy, Claude

Suite bergamasque
» III Clair de Lune

Liszt, Franz

Consolations (6), S172
» no.3 in D flat major

Schubert, Franz

Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
» no.3 in G flat major
Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780
» no.3 in F minor

Schumann, Robert

Fantasiestucke (8), op.12
» no.1 Des Abends
» no.2 Aufschwung
» no.3 Warum?
» no.7 Traumes Wirren
Kinderszenen, op.15
» no.7 Traumerei

Artists

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

About

*** Vinyl LP Version ***

Deutsche Grammophon is set to honour the supreme artistry of Daniel Barenboim as he approaches his 80th birthday. The great pianist and conductor’s remarkable legacy of recordings for the Yellow Label will be the focus of a major campaign comprising three albums, two DG Stage concerts and a series of e-video releases.

“I am grateful that Deutsche Grammophon has chosen to mark the year of my 80th birthday with recent performances as well as an album made during my early years with the label,” comments Daniel Barenboim. “I believe these recordings show how music exists as a world in itself, never the same twice, always changing, no matter how many times we perform a particular composition. This is the great privilege of being a musician, the chance to learn new things every time we play the same piece. And it’s a further privilege to be able to share this experience with audiences.”

The tribute begins with a brand-new selection of the pianist’s favourite encores. Specially recorded in Barenboim’s Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Encores features miniature masterpieces by Albéniz, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Schubert and Schumann. These six composers, long close to Barenboim’s heart, give an idea of the sheer variety of his vast repertoire, and each piece is conveyed in his inimitably idiomatic and communicative style.

In July 1972, Daniel Barenboim signed a contract to make a dozen albums for Deutsche Grammophon. His first recordings for the label included a selection of Brahms piano works and Bruckner’s Symphony no.4 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Over the next two decades he built the foundations of a remarkable catalogue for the Yellow Label, including landmark recordings of Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder and Schubert’s Winterreise with the legendary baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; the symphonies of Schumann and Bruckner with the CSO; Debussy orchestral works with the Orchestre de Paris; works for violin and orchestra by Lalo and Berlioz with Itzhak Perlman; Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli; music by Alban Berg with Pinchas Zukerman and Pierre Boulez; and the first of two cycles for DG of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas. The second was recorded during lockdown in 2020, Barenboim having signed a new exclusive contract with DG in 2018.

His very first recordings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s for the Westminster and Command labels, have been reissued by the Yellow Label. A still growing DG discography therefore also now includes important early interpretations from a pianist whose first public performance, given when he was just seven, was greeted with a lengthy standing ovation. Legend has it that after playing seven encores, the little boy went back on stage one last time and said to the audience, “I’m sorry, I’ve played everything I can!”

Now it seems there’s nothing the multi-award-winning Barenboim cannot do in the world of music. As noted by Opera Now, “He’s one of the most versatile cultural figures of our time.” Not only an acclaimed soloist and a conductor as much at home in the opera house as he is on the concert stage, he is a dedicated chamber musician, performing and recording with old friends such as Martha Argerich, Yo-Yo Ma and Anne-Sophie Mutter, and younger virtuosos such as Kian Soltani or his violinist son Michael. He is also a respected speaker, peace activist and champion of music education.

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