Type: Piano Solo
Location: La Scala, Milan, Italy
Performed by: Daniel Barenboim
Composer: Franz Liszt
Year: 2007

This performance feels less like a recital & more like a conversation between Barenboim, Liszt, and the audience. He doesn’t play to impress, but to reveal. In works including the Dante Sonata and Petrarch Sonnets, Barenboim moves between power and vulnerability, brilliance and restraint. At the stunning La Scala Opera, he plays with humility and depth. It’s not just music because his soul is speaking. Technically brilliant, but more than that, this performance is a reminder of why music matters