A special night at the BBC Proms, as Daniel Barenboim embarks on his complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies, becoming the first conductor since Henry Wood in 1942 to perform all nine symphonies in a ...

Did he know he was conducting Beethoven Nine, not Bruckner Nine or Mahler Nine? Twice, I did a double take. Two or three times it felt like Daniel Barenboim's speeds were about to kill the symphony ...

On the hottest day of the year a packed Royal Albert Hall sweltered in the heat as Proms’ history was made when maestro Daniel Barenboim raised his baton to usher in the sonorous E flat on the double ...

What is there to be said about the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra that hasn’t already been said? For twenty-five years it has united Arab and Israeli musicians under the baton of Jewish co-founder ...