Daniel Barenboim - The First Steps to Glory (2018)

Great artists are usually individuals solely dedicated to their artistic fulfillment throughout the course of their life; some of them even seem to live in another world. Daniel Barenboim, born in Buenos Aires in 1942, is the supreme example in our time of an exception to this rule. As pianist, conductor and opera director he is a cosmopolitan in music, but at the same time he is a humanist who sees himself as a politically aware contemporary citizen active above all in the search for solutions to religious and national problems. His parents were music teachers, moving first to Israel, then to Europe. Daniel Barenboim gave his first concert when he was seven, and was giving piano recitals in Vienna and Salzburg at the age of ten; he sought advice as a pianist from Edwin Fischer, and as a conductor from Igor Markevitch; his London concert debut of 1955 was conducted by Josef Krips. Six years later he was standing on the conductors rostrum himself. As successor to Georg Solti in 1975, he assumed the position- which he held till 1989- of Director of the Orchestre de Paris and in 1981, he celebrated the first of his many Bayreuth triumphs with his Tristan premiere. He took the Berlin Philharmonic on their first tour of Israel in 1990 and since 1992 he has been General Music Director of Berlins Staatsoper unter den Linden and its orchestra, the Staatskapelle. The recordings on the present album were made in 1959, at the beginning of a great career.

TRACKLIST

Disc 01 (9 / 52:14)
1. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
2. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile
3. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": III. Rondo. Allegro
4. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
5. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": II. Allegretto - Trio
6. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": III. Presto agitato
7. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": I. Allegro assai
8. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": II. Andante con moto
9. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": III. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto



Disc 02 (5 / 48:58)
1. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": I. Allegro con brio
2. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
3. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
4. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: I. Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
5. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111: II. Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile



Disc 03 (4 / 42:03)
1. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": I. Allegro
2. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": II. Scherzo. Assai vivace - Presto - Tempo I
3. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": III. Adagio sostenuto
4. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": IV. Largo - Allegro risoluto



Disc 04 (18 / 45:25)
1. Daniel Barenboim - Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 6, W. A12: I. Allegro
2. Daniel Barenboim - Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 6, W. A12: II. Andante
3. Daniel Barenboim - Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 6, W. A12: III. Prestissimo
4. Daniel Barenboim - Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major
5. Daniel Barenboim - Keyboard Sonata in G Major
6. Daniel Barenboim - 12 Variations in C Major on Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman, K. 265
7. Daniel Barenboim - Capriccio in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 5, MWV U50
8. Daniel Barenboim - 4 Piano Pieces, Op. 119: No. 3, Intermezzo in C Major
9. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonatina in C Major, Op. 13 No. 1: I. Allegro assai
10. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonatina in C Major, Op. 13 No. 1: II. Andantino
11. Daniel Barenboim - Piano Sonatina in C Major, Op. 13 No. 1: III. Presto
12. Daniel Barenboim - 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 2 in A Minor
13. Daniel Barenboim - 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 3 in G Major
14. Daniel Barenboim - 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 24 in D Minor
15. Daniel Barenboim - 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor
16. Daniel Barenboim - 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
17. Daniel Barenboim - 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 21 in B-Flat Major
18. Daniel Barenboim - 24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 5 in D Major