The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

Beethoven’s Fifth is, says the English conductor, a revolutionary symphony akin to a call to battle You don’t get anything more iconic than this symphony, especially its opening bars; and I don’t need ...

Although many people are spending this year’s Christmas tucked away in their homes (like so many gnomes), there are still some grand holiday displays happening. Light shows are certainly popping off ...

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica Olga Kern, on Saturday, February 9 at 7:30pm. In 2001, Olga Kern-a Steinway Artist-became the first woman in over thirty years to win the Van Cliburn ...

Five concertos, four concerts and three cities. It was quite a weekend for the New Jersey Symphony and pianist Inon Barnatan. Hearing—or playing—one of Beethoven’s piano concertos in a given day or ...

The ‘Three Great Bs’ of music—Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms—share this programme of solid-gold favourites. It ranges from Beethoven’s heartening, darkness-to-light symphonic journey, to the passionate ...

To make Beethoven’s Fifth sound fresh seems a Herculean task, yet that’s what Teodor Currentzis accomplishes here in a relentlessly intense performance that will likely keep you on the edge of your ...

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's most popular work and arguably the most famous pieces of classical music ever written, the Symphony No. 5 in C minor. Show more Its the most famous piece of ...

Its the most famous piece of classical music ever written, an instant representation of drama, tension, even classical music itself. Whether you hear that iconic opening idea as Fate knocking at the ...