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Daniel Barenboim led a grandiloquent “Heldenleben” at Segerstrom Center’s older, acoustically troubled hall on an earlier visit of the Vienna Philharmonic.

One of the world's most pre-eminent conductors, Daniel Barenboim, has announced he has Parkinson's Disease.

"It has very flatteringly been described as a project for peace," Barenboim once noted.

Barenboim initially ceded to protests from Holocaust survivors and pressure from politicians - but at the end of the concert, he asked the audience if they wanted him to play Wagner after all.

Born in Argentina to Jewish parents, Barenboim rose to prominence as a prodigious young pianist, before moving to Israel as a teenager and going on to become a leading conductor, first in Israel and then in Australia with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras.