We are currently blessed with an embarrassment of riches from the ongoing recording of Beethoven symphony cycles by two fine orchestras and conductors. In the recent articles Two Beethoven Fifths and ...

1 Review: BBC PROMS: VIVALDI AND BACH, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2025, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH, Royal Albert Hall Grammy ...

As Beethoven set about composing his Third Symphony, his hearing was failing and he felt certain his life was about to get worse. That it was born in a moment of despair may help explain why the ...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jader Bignamini returns from Italy to conduct a program on Friday that will highlight works by Jessie Montgomery and Richard Strauss, and feature Beethoven's ...

My opinion may be little better than the layman's, but I believe it is incorrect to consider Beethoven's cycle of nine symphonies the 'bedrock of western music." It is not. The bedrock of western ...

The concert: The San Antonio Symphony under the direction of Sebastian Lang-Lessing. “Beethoven 6 & 7” repeats at 8 p.m. today at the Majestic Theatre downtown. Audience: 1,900 First Take: A solemn ...

On Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra capped off the first half of its “Beethoven and American Masters” festival. When the cycle concludes in spring 2023, the NSO ...

For today's listener who knows all of Beethoven's symphonies, it takes some historical imagination to appreciate how his contemporaries successively received these new works and how the composer ...