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BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 38: Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert in which Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, originally formed as a one-off experiment in 1999 to bring together Arab and Israeli musicians, in a performance of Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, bassoon, violin and cello, Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra and Brahms's Symphony Number 4 in E minor.