Staatskapelle Berlin

Review: Daniel Barenboim Misses His American Swan Song

The ailing conductor was to have led the Staatskapelle Berlin in Brahms’s symphonies at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin jumped in.

By Zachary Woolfe

Because of deteriorating health, the 80-year-old conductor resigned as music director of the Berlin State Opera, a post he has held for decades.

By Alex Marshall

A Schumann cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim, works by Tyondai Braxton and Schubert sonatas by the pianist Paul Lewis are among the highlights.

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The pianist and conductor turns 80 soon, but deteriorating health has kept him from the celebrations he had long planned.

By Javier C. Hernandez