Daniel Barenboim Movies

This performance in May 1970, at St. John’s Smith Square, was filmed before the onset of Jacqueline du Pré’s illness in the early...

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude to Act III Sir Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Johannes Brahms:...

Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 73 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 73 Documentary...

Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

This film gains a unique insight into the nine symphonies, as well as the musicians' views on the difficulties and delights of performing these...

The support group for opera addicts is in session, and its participants perform Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery. Rarely performed outside...

The postcard is diffuse, but in the memory there are flashes of clarity. They appear in the scene: they chat, they meet again and they recognize in...

Documentary film about Vladimir Ashkenazy's and Daniel Barenboim's 1966 performance of Mozart's Concerto for 2 Pianos in E-flat major with the...

In Siegfried, the “Second Day” or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the epic tale. The energetic drive from...

The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the...

Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting...

A Verdi Requiem with a dream line-up of soloists and the forces of La Scala, Milan, directed by one of the greatest maestros of our time. Preceding...

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.

Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic,...

“Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim’s speeds…. The flexibility of...