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 ...

I have had the opportunity to perform full cycles of the Beethoven symphonies several times in the past few years and, when you look at the full group, it’s the Sixth Symphony that stands out as an ...

Ludwig van Beethoven followed his percussive, brooding Fifth Symphony with an ode to nature. The piece bursts with idyllic passages, including sounds of a brook and a thunderstorm. Yet Symphony No. 6 ...

If you are a connoisseur of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, conductor Carlos Kleiber and the great Bavarian State Orchestra; and if, like me, you missed the first issue of this 1983 live performance, ...

The 52nd Istanbul Music Festival held at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art witnessed a wandering cat during the orchestra performance of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No. 6 by Festival Strings Lucerne ...

The Fourth Symphony provided the listening public relief after the monumental 'Eroica' Symphony, and most popular Fifth Symphony. The Eighth Symphony follows the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Symphonies, ...

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 ...

“I fight for no theories, and cherish no prejudices. My sole point of view is the truth.” Such is the apology of American journalist and librarian Alexander Wheelock Thayer whose biography of Ludwig ...

With his First Symphony Beethoven staked his claim as a rightful heir to the Classical symphonic tradition. After its premiere, at a typically gargantuan benefit concert in Vienna’s Burgtheater on 2 ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...