Beethoven Symphonies 19 Daniel Barenboim WestEastern Divan Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim directs his first Beethoven symphony cycle in London and becomes the first conductor since Henry Wood in 1942 to survey all nine symphonies in a single Proms season His dynamic WestEastern Divan Orchestra famously bringing together Arab and Israeli players to form less an orchestra for peace than an orchestra against ignorance goes far beyond the symbolic in its goal of building bridges through music