Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Beethoven started composing his Septet for strings and winds in E-flat in 1799. It's in the style of a ...

Chamber music concert at Tanglewood's Linde Center on Sunday, March 8, features works by Nielsen and Beethoven.

Beethoven’s Septet has been one of his most popular chamber works ever since it was written. It was first performed in 1800, and was quite innovative for the time. The clarinet for example, has a role ...

These are three words I thought I would never write. I refer to Beethoven's own assessment of his Septet opus 20. The work is usually described as "rarely played". Well, you know that saying about ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Leonidas Kavakos, Conductor, Violin Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Septet Leonidas Kavakos, Violin Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

As to rivals, the Gaudier Ensemble on Hyperion do a nice job and the useful coupling is the rather less familiar Sextet in E flat. There’s also a classy Decca coupling of the Septet with Mendelssohn’s ...

The Seattle Symphony Orchestra celebrates Ludwig van Beethoven’s 239th birthday this month with performances highlighting the German composer’s early and late periods. On Dec. 30 and 31, music ...