Barenboim in China

Very pleased to contribute the narration to this fascinating doc exec produced by Peter Dale for his award-winning Rareday Films. Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim is surely one of the great men of our age, uniting as he does fierce musical intelligence and virtuosity with a belief that the universality of music can help cross otherwise insuperable boundaries. This film follows the memorable visit of maestro Barenboim and his inspirational West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up of young players from both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, on their debut tour of China and considers the huge appetite there for western classical music. Due for broadcast on BBC4 soon...