" I was delighted that, thanks to Deutsche Grammophon and its partners, hundreds of thousands of listeners around the world were able to share in the live-streamed concerts we gave in April from the Pierre Boulez Saal.To have the chance to record Beethoven’s sonatas so soon after for the Yellow Label felt like the ideal response to the pandemic. At no point during the last fifty years has there been a period when I’ve had time to spend three whole months just playing the piano.’"
Three montha practising and here is his another new Beethoven 32 set.
Is this Barenboim playing his new specially designed piano?’
I like DB as a musician, and his early piano playing back when he was chilling with Klemperer. But now, meh. He can still conduct well though his interpretations are not especially original, he thinks he is Furtwangler.
If he really wants to make piano recordings, he should do some transcriptions of Bruckner.