Watch Daniel Barenboim conducting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO) at the Proms this week. Look slightly down to his left. The young man at the front of the first violins is his son.

Daniel Barenboim has been busy ... He fell in love with the Russian pianist Elena Bashkirova and fathered two children with her. It was a clandestine affair and he believes du Pre – who remained ...

At first glance, Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said would seem to have little in common. But the two men share a passion: their love of music. Barenboim, descended from Russian Jews who emigrated to ...

It was the kind of endorsement many a young career-minded musician would have killed for. In 1954, only months before he died, the eminent conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler was introduced to a young ...

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1942 into a Russian Jewish family, Daniel Barenboim was a piano prodigy who first made his name in the 1960s as a performer of the classical keyboard repertory.