Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich first met as children growing up in Buenos Aires. And it was like children that they sweetly left the platform hand in hand after their joint performance at the Proms last week: two living-legend pianists side by side in one of the hot-ticket concerts of the season.
That Argerich was there at all was a relief: among her legendary attributes is cancellation. And her scheduled repertoire was Liszt’s Concerto No 1, with Barenboim conducting his own West-Eastern Divan Orchestra formed from young musicians on both sides of the Israeli/Arab conflict in the Middle East.
