Speaker 4: Okay, here are your tickets. Enjoy the show. Speaker 5: Your tickets, please. Follow me. Jeff Spurgeon: In New York City, there are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall, a subway, a taxi, a ...

It was Arne Nordheim’s notion to juxtapose his 1971 composition Listen with Beethoven’s C minor Sonata. Fortuitously, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg had recorded both works for Simax, and here they’re coupled ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When he got the call about a ballet commission, the 30-year-old Beethoven knew a great opportunity had ...

Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Chained in a secret dungeon, an innocent man is in bad shape... Beethoven's Fidelio is a rescue opera ...

Beethoven lived in a time of revolution. The American Revolution began just after he was born and the French Revolution ignited when he was a coming-of-age 18-year-old. Colors are something we see and ...

Beethoven's symphonies broke the mould - but if you're looking to own a set of recordings, which are the best albums to buy? Click on the album covers to listen and download. This fine 1999 set of ...

I cannot imagine what a celestial-level bummer it must be to spend more than two centuries hovering around the ether, waiting for your big sestercentennial bash to pop off and take over the planet, ...

When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, ...