Essen.
Daniel Barenboim, who retired as GMD in Berlin in January because of a serious illness, returns to the podium at the Ruhr Piano Festival – on May 12th.
Concerns were great when it became known in October last year that Daniel Barenboim (80) was suffering from a serious neurological disease and that he then resigned from his position as general music director of the Berlin State Opera, which he had held for decades.
In the meantime, Barenboim, who yesterday was made Berlin’s 132nd honorary citizen, has returned to the concert stage. First as a conductor, when he stood in for the sick Daniel Harding at La Scala in mid-February, or a little later at the memorial concert with Cecila Bartoli for the late State Opera director Jürgen Flimm. And then also as a pianist: He recently made a guest appearance in the trio with his son Michael and Kian Soltani at the Musikverein in Vienna.
Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas – 40 euros for all seats
But he saved his return as a soloist on the keys for the Ruhr Piano Festival. Daniel Barenboim promised Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, for whom it will be the last piano festival as director, to perform Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas in the Essen Philharmonic on Friday, May 12, 8 p.m. (tickets for all seats for 40 euros , reduced 25 euros, children 10 euros are available at the Ruhr Piano Festival: www.klavierfestival.de or phone 0201 89 66 866.
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