The final program of the BSO’s cycle featured Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, and like the two others I attended, the house was ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

Riccardo Chailly’s first recorded Beethoven cycle shows him to be a Classicist through and through. This is no surprise given the classicising ... at the start of the slow movement of the Ninth ...

In fact, two of the works on the program were conventional, as they were both by Beethoven: the Overture to his ballet, “The Creatures of Prometheus” (1801), and his Symphony No. 3 in E-flat ...

Judged in terms of name recognition, Ludwig Van Beethoven is almost certainly the best-known composer of classical music in ...

Luisi must have been right on Beethoven’s markings for the Fifth’s first two movements — the first edgy, bristling with ...