Conductor Daniel Barenboim formed the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with young musicians from several Middle Eastern countries. The group performed an historic concert in the Palestinian city of Ramallah on the West Bank, and we'll go there to hear performances of a Mozart Sinfonia Concertante and some of Sir Edward Elgar's "Enigma" Variations.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Domenico Scarlatti: Presto from Sonata in G, K. 13
Pianist Yundi Li
John Ireland and John Masefield: "Sea Fever"
Baritone Bryn Terfel and pianist Malcolm Martineau
Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
Sir Henry Wood: "Fantasia on British Sea Songs"
The North German Radio Pops Orchestra with conductor Howard Griffiths
Braunschweig Classix Festival, Braunschweig, Germany
Anonymous: A Jacobean Masque from "Dances and Divisions"
Hille Perl, viola da gamba; Lee Santana, lutes; and Maurice Steger, recorder
Dresden Music Festival, Dresden, Germany
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, S. 124
Pianist Yundi Li with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Leonard Slatkin
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Hour 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to "Cosi fan tutte"
The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Daniel Barenboim
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzona noni toni a 12
The Stuttgart Radio Brass
Aula Paolo VI, Vatican City
Franz Schubert: "Tauschung" and "Die Nebensonnen" from "Winterreise," D. 911
Baritone Thomas Quasthoff and pianist Daniel Barenboim
Philharmonie, Berlin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat, K. 297b
Mohamed Saleh, oboe; Kinan Azmeh, clarinet; Mor Biron, bassoon; and Sharon Polyak, French horn, with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and conductor Daniel Barenboim
Cultural Palace, Ramallah, West Bank
Sir Edward Elgar: "Nimrod" from "Enigma Variations," Op. 36
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with conductor Daniel Barenboim
Cultural Palace, Ramallah, West Bank
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9, No. 2
Pianist Yundi Li
Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany
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