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Was Barenboim happy hiding inside a provincial orchestra from Venezuela?

And was Gustavo Dudamel happy with Barenboim’s Morton Feldman speeds in the Brahms? It certainly saved Barenboim from playing too many wrong notes

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

Daniel Barenboim back at the Festival Hall! Cue The Grand March of the Musical Luvvies Across Hungerford Bridge, a bustling overture by Karl Jenkins in which a trombone farts out the epigrams of Simon Callow and the violas mimic the gentle swing of David Mellor’s shoulder-length bob — modelled, I’m told, on Anna Ford’s barnet c.1982.

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