Barenboim

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Daniel Barenboim mainly as a performer of Wagner. He ranks him among the best Wagnerian conductors and judges that his recording of the Ring "holds up"1. He also recommends his audio versions of the Ring and of Tristan, and sees him as a great pianist in Beethoven2. In the sessions, it is often his conducting that Pagani plays or screens, notably for Tristan34. He returns several times to one point: as a Jewish conductor, Barenboim fought for Wagner to be performed in Israel and did a great deal to reconcile that country with the composer5. Pagani draws on this example when he discusses how Wagner has been received and our relationship to the past. Finally, in a session on modal and tonal music, a participant reports that Barenboim learned music by transposing Bach into every key6. Pagani does not comment further on his conducting style.

1. 1#18 What is musical in music25 Mar 2021 · 44:10
2. 2Wagner and his interpreters, approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus?31 Mar 2021 · 16:43
3. 3#9.15 How can sciences of history be real?18 Feb 2021 · 1:25:21
4. 4Sickness, misfortune, evil20 Sept 2024 · 58:02
5. 5The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present4 Jun 2024 · 29:23
6. 6#11 Modal and tonal music24 Jan 2021 · 38:29

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.