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Cesar Franck * Gabriel Faure w/Berlin Phil.

In 1964, at the age of 21, Daniel Barenboim made his debut as soloist with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Five years later, he conducted the orchestra for the first time. Deutsche Grammophon is delighted to mark the 60th anniversary of this close and fruitful artistic partnership with a new album pairing Franck’s Symphony in D minor with the orchestral suite from Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande. The album  available today and on CD on 1 November. A strictly limited deluxe version available exclusively from the DG Store includes five high-quality postcards featuring some of the colour illustrations created by the German-Swiss painter and graphic artist Carlos Schwabe for a special edition of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande published in Paris in 1924. A selection of Schwabe’s illustrations also appear in the booklet that accompanies the recording.

Despite the changes in its personnel over the decades, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s relationship with Daniel Barenboim has never wavered. In a piece written for its website a few years ago, Frederik Hanssen noted that the orchestra’s “instinctively functioning communication” with the conductor “has in a sense inscribed itself into [its] DNA”, thanks to a friendship built on “deep mutual affection”. Barenboim, meanwhile, has spoken of the influence the orchestra had on him long before that first appearance in 1964: “When I was a child, the Berliner Philharmoniker was a model of what an orchestra could and should sound like. Its unmistakable sound took my breath away even then.”

Daniel Barenboim:

Schumann - The Symphonies w/Staatskapelle Berlin

Deutsche Grammophon is proud to be honouring the supreme artistry of Daniel Barenboim as he approaches his 80th birthday on 15 November. The great pianist and conductor’s remarkable legacy of recordings for the Yellow Label remains the focus of a major campaign comprising three albums, two DG Stage concerts and a series of e-video releases. Today, DG will release Barenboim’s latest readings of Schumann’s four symphonies, recorded live with the Staatskapelle Berlin over three evenings at the Staatsoper Berlin and Philharmonie Berlin. The album will be available as a 3-CD set and in digital format, including a Dolby Atmos version.
 
“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.”

Daniel Barenboim:

Encores

Deutsche Grammophon is set to honour the supreme artistry of Daniel Barenboim throughout the coming year as he approaches his 80th birthday next November. 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. The anniversary celebrations begin on 31 December 2021 with the release of an e-single of Debussy’s Clair de lune, one of the highlights of Maestro Barenboim’s first DG album of 2022.  “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, released on 25 March. 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. Encores will be followed on 29 July by the reissue of his sublime interpretations of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte (“Songs Without Words”), which originally came out in 1974 as a 3-LP set. Finally, Barenboim’s latest readings of Schumann’s four symphonies, recorded live with the Staatskapelle Berlin over three evenings at the Staatsoper Berlin and Philharmonie Berlin, will be issued on 7 October.

Daniel Barenboim:

Elgar -Sea Pictures. Falstaff, Garanca - Staatskap

Daniel Barenboim and Decca Classics continue their acclaimed Elgar series, recording Sea Pictures again after four decades and paired with the symphonic poem Falstaff. Recorded live in the winter of 2019, the album features the Staatskapelle Berlin and mezzo Elina Garanca in her first recording of Sea Pictures.

Daniel Barenboim:

Brahms - The Symphonies w/Staatskapelle Berlin

The first orchestral recording from Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal, Brahms: The Symphonies is a four-CD set featuring Boulez' beloved friend Daniel Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin in all four symphonic masterpieces from the great Romantic composer.

Daniel Barenboim:

Claude Debussy

One of the most important artists of our time, Daniel Barenboim releases a collection of beloved Debussy pieces in time for the French composer's centenary, including Estampes, Suite bergamasque and Preludes, L.117. 

Daniel Barenboim:

Elgar: Symphony no. 1

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin Record Elgar's Symphony no. 1 for Decca. For their second album featuring the music of Edward Elgar, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin have recorded the composer's first symphony, following a recording of his second symphony two years ago. "I hold that the symphony without a program is the highest development of art." With these words, spoken in a University of Birmingham lecture in 1905, Elgar declared himself as belonging to the Brahmsian tradition of the abstract symphony, already thought moribund by many, rather than allying himself with Richard Strauss, the modern master of the symphonic poem.