West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Mendelssohn / BrahmsDaniel Barenboim (conductor)
Music can build bridges and break down barriers previously considered insurmountable. This is the highly topical mission of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with its founder and concert master Daniel Barenboim.
Music can build bridges and break down barriers previously considered insurmountable. This is the highly topical mission of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with its founder and concert master Daniel Barenboim.
Consisting of young Israeli and Arab musicians who are all shaped by the political situation their home countries, the orchestra holds an intercultural dialogue from both a musical and a human perspective with the aim of breaking down political divides. Since its foundation in 1999, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has performed in most European countries as well as America and the Middle East.
This coming autumn, it will return to Munich together with Daniel Barenboim. Barenboim has moved the world as pianist, conductor and human being and played his way into the hearts of multiple generations over many decades. An original sound and a unique joy of playing characterise this constellation when the musicians perform symphonies by Mendelssohn and Brahms and show that music can be a unifying force.
Programme
- Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, Italian
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98
