The Bayreuth Festival is marking its founding anniversary with a ceremony and a performance of Beethoven, as the world-famous ...

Throughout the season, Classical Live features highlights from the BBC Proms, the world’s greatest classical music festival.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Symphony No. 9 was the pinnacle of Beethoven's remarkable career. Boston Public Library/Flickr, CC BY In early 1824, 30 members of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Gaffigan conducting the San Francisco Symphony. (Brandon Patoc/San Francisco Symphony) Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is a ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent "Ode to Joy," premiered on May 7, 1824. We recently passed its bicentennial. The Ninth was greeted as a masterpiece from the outset and ...

Beethoven's Ninth has topped the ABC Classic 100 countdown for the fifth time. We explore its mystique and shed light on composers following in Beethoven's footsteps.

Carl St.Clair is winding up his 22nd season as music director of the Pacific Symphony this week, while the orchestra caps its 33rd, with performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. These musicians ...

As beautiful as the Brahms performance was, it was not the primary draw to last weekend’s concerts. The big piece of music was Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. We weren’t disappointed. The performance was ...