Even the most generously funded rendition of Beethoven’s ninth would require a meagre third of those forces. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony crackle from the speaker, followed by an announcer who says in crisp German, "The BBC London presents the news in German." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

While at the heart of Beethoven’s symphony lies a vision of a better civilisation led by a benign deity, Berlioz, a life-long atheist, attempts to evoke the Apocalypse and Final Judgement in sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Whatever you think of him, you cannot escape the fact that virtually everything that happened in nineteenth-century music in some way began with Beethoven. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His Prometheus was published in 1789 and The Tragedy of Faust: Part One in 1808, the year of Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Could Beethoven hear the music of the distant future? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And the Messiah who had rallied them to the cause was Beethoven. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For school concerts he had to play Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, but now that he had graduated, he was free to play whatever he liked, which was swing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An incredible video showing a three-year-old child conducting Beethoven. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, neither the well-worn anecdote about a disenchanted Beethoven ‘scratching out’ the title page of his symphony bearing a dedication to Napoleon, nor the composer’s musical radicalism are quite what they seem. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At a concert in February 1814, for example, Beethoven presented the premiere of his eighth symphony alongside a performance of his seventh, which itself was only two months old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the music would be classical: Brahms, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, or Bach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the Eroica symphony onwards, Beethoven self-consciously became a composer with a mission: he would change the world through his art. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I hear the first few bars of Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know whose cat accidentally plays three seconds of Beethoven on the piano. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Posters of musicians are hung all around the room: Ella Fitzgerald, Beethoven, Bob Marley, the Beatles, Marian Anderson. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Of the generation that followed Beethoven, Chopin was the composer whose influence was slowest to make its impact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Beethoven’s genius was to convert their modernity into something that would, in due course, become the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That Saturday night he took the chain off the piano strings and played something he had been remembering and practicing in the morning, something called “Moonlight,” a piece by Beethoven, Cotton Eye thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Skinny Delivery Boy, you are talking to a very old woman who doesn’t think much good music has been written since Ludwig van Beethoven finished his Ninth Symphony.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is Ludwig van Beethoven’s turn to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Beethoven’s Fifth, if you please. Do you see what a magnificent magician I am, ladies and gentlemen? I just made a pianist appear out of thin air!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve encountered a geek with newly minted coins from around the world and one who’s written an elaborate digital music script for all of Beethoven’s works. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two composers did meet once, an encounter brokered by the kindly Antonio Salieri, and we have it word for word since Beethoven, being deaf, had to have the conversation written down. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Haydn was so adept at sculpting a tune from small beginnings that the younger Mozart and Beethoven simply copied the technique in their own way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For this aspect of their troubled genius Beethoven and his contemporaries had two irresistible fictional role models: Faust and Prometheus. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This convenient comparison is given extra poignancy by Beethoven’s reference to the French despot in his momentous third symphony, these days known as the Eroica but originally dubbed the Bonaparte. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And Beethoven was the composer who began this transformation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I think his shortcoming increased his appreciation; he loved it all indiscriminately—Beethoven, the latest love ditty, jazz, a hymn—it was all profoundly musical to Phineas. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He complained that they would not let him play Beethoven; Jews were not allowed to play German music. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beethoven’s “Für Elise” is blasting through my headphones as I’m putting on my cap and gown for today’s graduation ceremony. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Daily Telegraph of London offered an atypical reaction to the impending match: “Imagine that you can hear the end of Schubert’s ‘Unfinished Symphony’ or Beethoven’s 10th, or see the missing arm of Michelangelo’s Venus. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As a child his musical ability had quickly been spotted and he was soon in Vienna receiving training from, among others, Salieri, and encountering both Beethoven and Schubert. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That Beethoven changed the way society viewed composers should not cloud our judgement of his brilliant predecessor who sought and gave one thing: pleasure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And it was a hurricane with one unavoidable exhortation: Roll over, Beethoven . The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I finger the notes of Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the city’s wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I guessed it had begun to grow in the time of Beethoven. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, between a sonata and a concerto. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

No one followed Beethoven’s lead in reflecting emotion through nature more passionately than his near contemporary Franz Schubert, also based in Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Haydn was setting Beethoven counterpoint exercises while on summer retreat at the palace of Eisenstadt. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The music of Mozart, Haydn, and the early works of Beethoven are in this style, which we call classical rather than neoclassical, because the original classical music of ancient Greece and Rome is lost. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And it was something from Beethoven, for the beginning of the victory, in one of those wars. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is not known definitively whether Mozart and Beethoven ever met, despite their lives overlapping by twenty-one years, but two more different artists, creatively or temperamentally, it is hard to imagine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The idea behind Liszt’s symphonic poems was to reduce the traditional four-movement symphony as exemplified by Beethoven into one concentrated, shorter piece that would be a musical response to a non-musical artwork. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rather, he pointed out that “geniuses like Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare and Fischer come out of the head of Zeus, seem to be generally programmed, know before instructed.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It crackles, and a stormy arpeggio from the final movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata bursts forth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beethoven, inspired by study of and admiration for Handel and Bach, merely had the idea of appending to a symphony something you might expect in an oratorio. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the Fifth and Ninth symphonies, Beethoven used the trombone as a noisemaker. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She imagined that they were going to the park: She missed teasing her for playing “old-fogy music”—Beethoven. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As is so often the case in music’s rich history, the most original, daring and influential works - Beethoven’s Eroica symphony, Richard Strauss’s Salome - are ones that creep up on the world, apparently out of nowhere. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Beethoven could not hide his unstable emotions from the music, nor did he use the job of music-making as a distraction from the difficulties of life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The car radio somehow still is attached to a battery and so Beethoven is broadcasting into the once- again tranquil February morning. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listening to Chopin after the helter-skelter psychological drama of Beethoven or the theatrical bravado of Berlioz, it is as if someone has opened a window and let in some fresh, balmy evening air. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"Ah"—my grandmother rolled her eyes—"another Beethoven!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

This tally of instruments, occasionally beefed up by timpani and trumpets, was the template for the classical orchestra as used by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Whatever else Beethoven’s music may have been, it was certainly not intended to be escapist. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Robert Schumann and his friend Felix Mendelssohn were German successors to Beethoven of a gentler mould. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then it went quiet, except for this: Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave us lectures on women’s suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I flip through the songs I’ve been practicing in my lesson book and decide on Beethoven’s Sonata number 8. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For one, I can still hear the Beethoven. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad bangs out the opening bars to Beethoven’s Fifth. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The odd thing about the symphony as it blossomed in Haydn’s, Mozart’s and Beethoven’s time is that it doesn’t have any direct parallels in any other artistic field. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The reason for this is that, like Beethoven’s late quartets, Chopin’s music is unusually intimate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Beethoven takes a relatively simple tune and builds from it a giant tapestry of ideas and musical meanderings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She only cared for Beethoven and that whole group. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I polished Beethoven off in forty minutes, long before the rest of the class. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Big, booming Beethoven symphonies blast from her CD player all day long. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But as he began the Adagio from Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the awkwardness fell away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would have wished to see Beethoven, though he was already dead. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Beethoven going deaf was the high point of his chapter in The Lives of the Great Composers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Three short and one long, the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the Morse code signal, V for Victory. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beethoven challenged his listeners to return time and again to the unresolved conflicts that characterised his art. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The reason for the additional singers was not just to fill the hall with a magnificent noise but to proclaim Beethoven’s hopes for the future. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s what Beethoven and Ms. D. say. You must be a girl, Lolly.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It’s like she’s figured out how to play Beethoven and Thelonious Monk but hasn’t quite mastered the art of being a girl yet. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Classical music was in trouble, and by the whirlwind conclusion of The Beatles’ adventure, it looked as if the words of one of their early Chuck Berry covers, ‘Roll over Beethoven’, were actually coming true. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Beethoven’s eighth piano sonata, known as the Pathetique, was written when he was twenty-eight and making a name for himself in Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This was Beethoven's great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The scale of Beethoven’s seventh symphony was to be overtaken in a dramatic way, however, by the ambition of his ninth and final symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I haven’t since I was in the car this morning, listening to Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 14th Quartet might, for him, be a communication announcing, “Beethoven here,” answered, after passage through an undersea of time and submerged currents of human thought, by another long signal a century later, “Bartok here.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beethoven and his contemporaries even made the natural world an extension of their feelings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Grief is grief, pain is pain, and music, Beethoven seems to be proclaiming, is the art best placed to confront such darkness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Brown gave me Beethoven’s Ecossaise in G, which, strangely, had chords not unlike the Joplin rags. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When, in the time of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, we refer to a ‘public’ concert, it is not in the modern sense of a gathering open to absolutely anyone, for the price of a ticket. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is no exaggeration to say that after and because of Beethoven music approached the status of a religion, complete with gods and goddesses for worshipping, a state of affairs that persists to this day. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Now, next to some extreme forms of hip-hop, Chuck Berry seems as dangerous as Beethoven. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Seven years after composing his Pathetique sonata, Beethoven stopped sounding like Mozart or Dussek or Haydn and started creating music beyond what they had imagined. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of many festivals on a crowded European music calendar, the Beethoven fest increasingly "punches above its weight," in the words of one observer, particularly for musicians. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

His grandfather, also named Ludwig van Beethoven, had been Bonn’s Kapellmeister — an important post that placed him in charge of music at the court. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Yet the sparseness of Beethoven's sketches made it impossible for symphony experts to go beyond that first movement. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Another series of symphony events restricted to the 21-and-up crowd is "Beethoven and Brews," which brings musicians to a trendy downtown hotel bar to play as local breweries offer tastings. Colorado Symphony links up with pot industry 2014-04-30T13:28:15Z

The death mass headlines the Symphony Orchestra of India’s short spring season, which also includes an opera gala and an evening of Max Bruch, Beethoven and the Kazakh composer Yerkesh Shakeyev. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Generally, Beethoven's impact has been felt much more strongly in classical music than in pop, because he wrote about his emotions without words. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

Yes, there is inevitably Beethoven, performed in six concerts by various fine groups in Alice Tully Hall in January and February. Review: Escher Players Explore Less Familiar Ground: Zemlinsky’s Quartets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Beethoven described nature in the Pastoral Symphony, Sibelius was terrified by it in Tapiola, but it took Xenakis for music to become nature. A guide to Iannis Xenakis's music 2013-04-23T16:57:59Z

These composers have a kind of godparental relationship to Beethoven’s symphonies. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

In one marathon concert, he played titanic works by Bach, Schubert, Beethoven and Prokofiev. Review: A Pianist’s Profound Vision of ‘Life,’ in Just 2 Hours 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Recording Haydn’s sonatas, in other words, is not entirely like recording Beethoven’s, even after a decision has been taken as to how to make enjoyable, coherent programs out of them. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Featuring a group of singers as well as orchestra, the piece is a cosmic jumble of texts and musical quotations, with references to Beethoven, Berg, Boulez and more; it’s music that captures chaos. In a Pandemic, Musicians Play in Empty Halls for Audiences Online 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, Stewart Goodyear concludes his four-concert traversal of the complete Beethoven sonatas with a recital that includes the “Tempest” and “Les Adieux” sonatas as well as the composer’s final three works in the genre. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Both of the Beethoven pieces were from the same period — the somewhat glibly rendered Five Variations on “Rule, Britannia” and the more substantial “Eroica Variations.” In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Beethoven, here, still identified with Napoleon as revolutionary. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Much of “Beethoven in America” is a copiously annotated catalog of his ubiquity in popular culture. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z

The cello, the one instrument of the three for which Beethoven did not write a concerto, leads all three movements, and Gautier Capucon's lyrical suavity was stellar. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The program opened with a selection of Beethoven songs but focused on two song cycles, Beethoven’s “An die ferne Geliebte” and Schubert’s “Schwanengesang” — which is simply a collection of his last 14 songs. Tenors show two facets of recital tradition 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

But changes in musical technology have been continuous and profound through the ages, such that there can be revelatory performances of “period Beethoven” or “period Wagner” — or period Debussy! 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Everything was exquisitely calibrated, his Beethoven fresh and clean as usual. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Visiting the house where he wrote it, which is now a Beethoven museum, felt almost intrusive. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

He didn't perform his seminal 1960s acoustic loop I Am Sitting in a Room, but his Exploration of the House – Beethoven's Consecration of the House chopped up, recorded, played back, re-recorded – made the same point. Tectonics – review 2013-05-14T18:27:54Z

But Beethoven as a vulnerable human being caught up in struggle is another key theme of the festival. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The librarian encouraged his budding passion, although his family did not share his newfound enthusiasm for Beethoven. Classical: The Sad Beauty in Schubert’s Last Sonatas 2012-10-14T02:00:41Z

And, as with Beethoven at his most emphatic, percussive accents pervade the orchestration. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z

That Mahler performance with the Pittsburgh players was very good, and so was the Beethoven Seventh on Thursday with the Philharmonic. Music Review: Manfred Honeck Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher 2013-01-05T00:58:01Z

However, the term soon became outdated as revolutionary change became the aim of composers such as Beethoven. Notes and queries: When red lights might not mean stop; What makes classical music classical music? Why Ludo and Monopoly players are good sports 2010-08-31T23:05:00Z

I felt very strongly that that was not doing full justice to Beethoven’s radicalism, however enlightened and inspirational the interpreter. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

In Cleveland, he debuted at a summer Blossom Music Festival concert but made a more spectacular impression filling in last minute for Jaap van Zweden in a program that culminated with Beethoven’s Seventh. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The performance of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the “Pastoral,” evoked geniality and comfortable grace, lacking a certain intensity in the fourth-movement thunderstorm but precisely balanced elsewhere. Music Review: Bernard Haitink and New York Philharmonic - Review 2011-11-11T22:39:40Z

If you were to compare just Mozart’s orchestral and instrumental music to Beethoven’s, that would be a pretty even match. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

And she describes Beethoven’s music vibrantly, as in her acute phrases on the sublime slow movement of the Op. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

As a result, prominent patrons circulated a petition imploring Beethoven to keep the premiere in Vienna. Revolution No. 9: Seattle will hear Beethoven’s famed, still-needed work of inclusivity 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

This kind of playing paid dividends in Schumann’s String Quartet No. 3 as well, a piece, as it happens, that draws on the quartets of Haydn and Beethoven, though with a more lyrical bent. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Beethoven is at his best when he sweeps you away with him, whether into the heavens or the darkest depths. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

But such thoughts will be far from Vásquez's mind right now: he brings Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky to the Royal Festival Hall with the Teresa Carreño Orchestra. Dudamel abides 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony If you looked at my Spotify list, the No. 1 most played thing for the past year or two wasn’t Bob Dylan or Yo La Tengo or Caveman. David Chang Loves Beethoven’s Ninth (but Won’t Finish ‘Infinite Jest’) 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Interdependence, despondence, insistence and resistance are the central relationship issues that flow across the generational divides, accompanied by Chopin, with a dash of Beethoven and Nina Simone. 'Love Is Strange' and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Calder-ized Beethoven has dollops of that kind of creaminess as well. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The homes of Schubert, Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart all host museums — but they are small and rather forgettable. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The performance was a fantastic start to Mr. Zimmermann’s residency with the Philharmonic this season, which will include performances of the Beethoven and Dvorak concertos, chamber music and recitals. Music Review: Alan Glibert and Frank Peter Zimmermann on Violin - Review 2011-10-06T19:56:57Z

Chamber favorites by Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart are on the bill, too. 18 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-01-25T23:30:05Z

He managed to plumb Beethoven’s depths without evoking the cliched sense of a tortured psyche that often features in interpretations of his music. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Classical music, including Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" and Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," has been featured in video games for years. Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Nathan now plays the piano at grade five standard; his favourite composers are Bach and Beethoven. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

You might think this would make her a Beethoven specialist; but she has not performed many of the 32 sonatas, though they are staples of the piano repertory. Martha Argerich is a legend of the classical music world. But she doesn’t act like one. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

He then organized the first Beethoven Festival that same year after insisting the Bonn city fathers build a 2,000-seat auditorium that no longer exists. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The brilliant pianist Jeremy Denk plays a typically inventive program that opens with Mozart’s Sonata in C minor and ends with Beethoven’s final sonata, in the same key. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Charlotte is a font of common-sense wisdom and compassion; she also plays Beethoven beautifully on the piano. Movie Review: ‘The Magic of Belle Isle,’ by Rob Reiner, With Morgan Freeman 2012-07-05T22:10:44Z

For the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the classical music field pulled out all the stops last year, even in the midst of pandemic performance cancellations around the world. The Renaissance’s Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Lill ended this blockbuster program with Beethoven’s Sonata in F Minor, the “Appassionata,” played with all the panache, the insight, the grace and the excitement the work demands. John Lill draws out all the moods, power of the piano 2014-05-01T17:50:27Z

Though much is known about Beethoven, whole swaths of his life remain elusive. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, two Beethoven trios frame Walker’s early “Lyric for Strings” and his Violin Sonata No. 2. Classical & Opera Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Conductors often pick a blockbuster to close a season, like the Beethoven Ninth or Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand.” Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

At the Little Night Music program at the Kaplan Penthouse later that evening, Mr. Vogt offered late sonatas by Schubert and Beethoven, which he described as “not exactly entertainment music.” Review: Lars Vogt Presents Late-Career Beethoven and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Every work, performer and composer is listed on the archive, allowing the discovery that, for example, Wagner is the most performed composer at the Proms, far ahead of Beethoven in second place. In praise of ? the Proms online archive 2010-07-07T23:05:00Z

Still, Mr. Pierson said, the chance to conduct mainstream classical repertory like Beethoven’s Third Symphony, which will be parceled out among several concerts, was an opportunity he relished. Brooklyn Philharmonic Lands Alan Pierson as Artistic Director 2011-10-01T04:00:06Z

Even so, he maintained his freelance career, and was given to occasional spectacles, like the 1988 marathon in London, when he conducted all nine Beethoven symphonies in a single 10-and-a-half-hour concert. Lorin Maazel, an Intense and Enigmatic Conductor, Dies at 84 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

He did, in a sense, sticking to the way his Beethoven has been of late, steadier and heftier than the new norm. In His Twilight, a Conductor Revisits Where His Career Dawned 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

It was only logical to start in Bonn, not only because he did, but because it is home to perhaps the best Beethoven museum: the Beethoven-Haus, his birthplace. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

At times, repetitive riffs from Beethoven are turned into musical battering rams. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

But before departing, she led a captivating program at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night, conducting works by Beethoven and Ravel. Essential Arts & Culture: DNC set design, L.A.'s public art biennial, a ballet star in 'A Chorus Line' 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

There have been some past attempts to reconstruct parts of Beethoven's 10th Symphony. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

And the elegant Quatuor Ébène will play Beethoven downstairs at the same time, a tribute to Carnegie’s unmatched range and quality. Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall Is a Start to a Big Week 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

We printed musical scores that had been developed by AI and built off the sketches from Beethoven's 10th. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

With emotions and theatricality and a Beethoven symphony — well, just some of it. Dance: Meg Stuart Choreographs ?Blessed? at New York Live Arts 2012-01-06T20:40:21Z

To a youth aspiring to books and Beethoven, it looks like a trap – the high-minded romance of life brought low by a communal joke about the body, the insistence on our beer-swilling, snoring, sweating selves. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

As the Beethoven progressed, the sound seemed fuller, especially, of course, during the finale when the robust Montreal Symphony Chorus entered. Music Review: Montreal Symphony at La Maison Symphonique - Review 2011-09-08T22:00:33Z

A celebration of music by composers including Schubert, Beethoven, Mahler and Strauss, with appearances by Carnegie regulars like the Vienna Philharmonic, may not seem like a surprising festival choice. Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2013-14 Season 2013-01-31T16:59:48Z

Two of the most famous names in the classical canon — Beethoven and Ravel — appear on the program for Seattle Symphony’s upcoming livestream on Feb. 25. Meet the fast-rising young composer who’s created a work Seattle Symphony is debuting in the U.S. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

He returns to Carnegie this weekend for another recital, this time playing works by Schoenberg and three Beethoven sonatas, including the tumultuous “Appassionata.” Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

"There is no Reader's Digest version of life or Beethoven's Fifth," he jokes. L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky exiting as a champion of arts 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s like Beethoven,” he explained to the audience before the piece started; “it just sounds different.” Art or music? The National Gallery of Art provokes ears and thoughts.  ​ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Much of the most beautiful music over the last two centuries has been conceived for it: imagine how impoverished western music would be without the piano writing of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy and beyond. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

If Beethoven’s experiments in surround-sound broke down the fourth wall dividing musicians and audience, Berlioz tore down the separation between the concert hall and the city. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

That said, Bruckner doesn’t provide the intensely variegated landscape of a Beethoven cycle. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Five years ago, for instance, she brought Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer to lead a Beethoven symphony cycle of back-to-back performances with a modern orchestra and a period instrument ensemble. Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The relationship to Beethoven was not immediately apparent, at least to a listener with a memory unclouded with a lot of free-floating cadenzas. Review: Beethoven Gets a Sequel at the New York Philharmonic 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The Beethoven sounded like the most radical work in the program by far: unfathomable and amazing. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Beautifully recorded, it boasts Beethoven as we imagine him today. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

After Beethoven died, everyone was afraid of composing choral symphonies that would be compared to it. Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z

In his day Liszt played not just his own dazzling piano music, but works of masters who preceded him, especially Beethoven and Schubert, and by his contemporaries. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z

He brought an outdoorsy vigor bordering on brashness to Haydn’s “Sailor’s Song,” and a plush and supple tone to Beethoven’s “Adelaide.” Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The logical conclusion to this bridge to Beethoven would be to play all three sonatas together nonstop for 80 minutes. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Too often in contemporary music, conductors seem merely to be keeping time; but all this was handled deftly by Salonen, who looked as animated and assured as if he were conducting Beethoven. Review: Revisiting a Kaija Saariaho Opera Days After Her Death 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Since I've been ill, late Beethoven, his last string quartets, suddenly move me deeply. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z

The two internal movements of the Beethoven were more persuasive here than the outer two: The final Allegro, its tempo carefully restrained, developed haltingly rather than organically. Review: Jaap van Zweden, Precise at the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Seated sternly before the Philharmonia Orchestra in London in the 1960s, he appeared to many to be the solemn custodian of Bach and Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

But the episode ends with Ken taking up the pen under the new pseudonym Dave Algonquin, imagining what Beethoven felt like as he was writing the 9th Symphony. Mad Men Watch: Domesticity and its Discontents 2012-04-16T11:00:29Z

Some consider this early piece vibrant and effective, but not yet the “real” Beethoven. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Scherchen’s Beethoven — like this Second Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra — is fast, sleek and astonishing detailed, as exciting as anything set down since. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

But before the Beethoven came a piece I'd never even heard of, the Siegfried Idyll. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Rachmaninoff were all considered among the top virtuosos of their day. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Among their recordings are Beethoven's violin sonatas and Dvorak's complete piano trios. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

Beethoven's concertos are, and have always been, in the repertory of nearly all concert pianists. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The symphony can come off as an exercise in motivic obsession on the level of Beethoven’s Fifth, and even has that work’s style of a soaringly ecstatic finale. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

A fine conductor in his own right, Mr. Adès also takes the podium for the overture to Berlioz’s “Les Francs-juges,” and Beethoven’s First Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

To me, the Takacs will forever be primarily a Beethoven quartet. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

This concert introduces the wind instruments, with music by composers including Bach, Beethoven and Ravel. Spare Times for Children for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:35:14Z

Anyone picturing a herculean Beethoven, shaking his fists at the heavens, may be taken aback, McCabe says, by some of the delicacies in the violin sonatas. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z

On May 9, Van Hoose will join forces with National Symphony Orchestra violinist Glenn Donnellan for “Beethoven at the Ballpark!,” two children’s concerts at the Kennedy Center Family Theater. At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Paul Lewis performs the five Beethoven piano concertos at the Proms. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z

For all his music’s many moods, I suspect my inner life would be unendurable if it had nothing to feed on but Beethoven. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Stéphane Denève's Prom with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra brought Paul Lewis's Beethoven cycle to a close with a performance of the Emperor Concerto that didn't always scale the requisite heights. Proms 69 & 70: RSNO/Den?ve; Ensemble Matheus/Spinosi 2010-09-07T11:11:00Z

And that higher human beings, through their creative genius, can actually make life worth living – that Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is enough to justify all the suffering the world includes. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

In the Beethoven “Eroica” Symphony, Eschenbach took us on another of his idiosyncratic rides on a warhorse, trying to shake things up his way. An idiosyncratic ride with the Bamberg Symphony and Ray Chen at CAP UCLA 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, longtime colleagues and friends, have played Beethoven’s five sonatas for cello and piano for some four decades, and won Grammy Awards for recordings of them in the 1980s. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The OMF continues Saturday and Aug. 5 with more Beethoven plus Prokofiev and Brahms. 13 top entertainment picks for July 29-Aug. 4, 2012 2012-07-25T21:49:08Z

If there's one composer who hardly needs that kind of blanket coverage, it's surely Beethoven. My perfect Proms 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

Garrick Ohlsson plays Brahms’s complete works for solo piano over four programs; Paul Lewis joins the orchestra for all five Beethoven piano concertos. Singing Will Return to Tanglewood This Summer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Even Rudolf Serkin, my pianist hero at the time and a magnificent Beethoven player, approached these masterpieces with humility and awe. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Beethoven is said to have attended one of the child’s concerts in Vienna and kissed his brow afterward in benediction. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

In this, as in the Dvorák and the opening blast of unreconstructed high spirits from Beethoven's Namensfeier overture, the Philharmonia showed themselves right on the money. Gerhardt/Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z

His program, including works by Scarlatti, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, seemed devised to showcase his spectacular virtuosity, especially the final work: Liszt’s demonically difficult “Totentanz.” How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The program ends with Beethoven’s stormy Fifth Symphony. Classical Music Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Clive's main strength as a critic, apart from the sharpness of his wit, was the vast range of his interests – "from ice-skating to Beethoven quartets", as he once put it. How Clive James transformed the role of television critic 2012-06-23T23:06:15Z

He sparked a media frenzy and was later dubbed the Piano Man after witnesses heard him play Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” from memory. Review | Best known for her role on ‘Downton Abbey,’ Catherine Steadman is making a splash as an author 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

If the Enescu was a quickie, the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 was a serious relationship. Review: Varga, in elegant form, leads SSO in inspiring program 2010-04-16T18:02:00Z

Even the opening orchestral statements in the Beethoven concerto were full of Haitink hallmarks. LSO/Haitink – review 2013-02-18T18:04:50Z

The mood is simmering and enigmatic in four Berio miniatures, which divide two Beethoven sonatas and Schumann’s Opus 17 fantasy, in which Mr. Haefliger is grand yet restrained. Classical Playlist: Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, Milton Babbitt, Handel and More 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The following weekend’s program targets children ages 6 to 12 with a Young People’s Concert on March 2 titled “Level Up — Beethoven, Andrew Norman and Video Games.” 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Before the concert, Jerome Rose, the festival’s founder and director, announced that Mr. Bavouzet would be playing two instruments: a Yamaha for the Beethoven, a Steinway for the Debussy. Music Review: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at International Keyboard Institute 2013-07-28T18:57:26Z

Schiff's encores were a Schubert Hungarian melody and an impromptu, along with a late, transcendentally played bagatelle of Beethoven. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

He was struck anew by “Fidelio,” which Beethoven composed in the wake of the French Revolution. Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s technique was not as facile as Mozart’s. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

This foursome is never to be missed, still less when, considering their wealth of experience with the composer, they are playing Beethoven. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Playing Beethoven often seems to involve choosing sides. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, partners in sublime 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Using the iconic opening movement of Beethoven’s Fifth as a case study, development here is related in terms of the choices and story lines opening up inside a video game. 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

But this was not the kind of Beethoven that shocked or surprised, nor that drove inexorably to an inevitable end. Jonathan Biss Plays Beethoven at the 92nd Street Y 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

It opens the season on Thursday, performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 for the first time. The Week Ahead: Oct. 7 — 13 2012-10-07T07:30:05Z

Up to 130 children from the scheme will play a Beethoven overture under the direction of Dudamel - who is also director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Bolivars arrive for Big Concert 2012-06-18T00:11:20Z

That night in Vienna, Beethoven unveiled the Fifth Symphony and the “Pastoral” Sixth. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

How many orchestras would come up with a Beethoven tribute concert without any works by Beethoven in it? 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

“I’m definitely influenced by Led Zeppelin and Beethoven,” she remarked in the documentary. A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

These excellent musicians — including the pianist Alexander Melnikov performing on a restored 1828 Graf piano — offer a powerful and insightful interpretation of Beethoven’s marvelous “Archduke” Trio. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

And once Dr. Broyles establishes Beethoven in the American concert hall, he shows how early fans turned the composer from a cultural hero into a god of sorts, a fountainhead of edifying, “ethical” music. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z

It was his most important statement of spirituality, a “symbolic representation of humanity’s search for peace that can only be discovered through religious feeling, collectively and personally,” the Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood wrote. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

That same instinct had also helped make for a satisfying interpretation of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, in which pianist Paul Lewis contrasted the dynamic, virtuoso passages with a more intimate, chamber-music-like quality with great sensitivity. BBCNOW/Atherton – review 2013-01-28T18:18:18Z

His lectures on Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas remain a central tenet of music broadcasting. Day-Lewis knighted in Honours list 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

It was even possible to hear something Williamsesque in the muscular, relentless rhythms of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Music Review: John Williams Birthday Concert at Tanglewood 2012-08-19T21:48:18Z

His complete Beethoven sonatas, recorded when he was 20, caused a sensation. A Blacksmith?s Touch Makes Music Light 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

Beethoven can be played with no more than a brilliant orchestra leader. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

It is the drivel of disembodied voices narrating bad documentaries about Beethoven and Mozart. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

At the first rehearsal for Beethoven’s Ninth, Mr. Petrenko made a proposal: If the players observed all the dynamic markings in their scores, they would be able to delve more deeply into other areas. The Berlin Philharmonic’s Anti-Anti-Maestro 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

It is only two bars, but when Beethoven writes the direction “dolce” — sweetly — it evokes a human feeling. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

"It balances over the course of the season so people don't get used to a steady diet of Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart." L.A. Philharmonic's Andrew Bain takes spotlight in 'Brilliant Brass' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Yip pushed for better hours and started building up their repertoire with basics like Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and, she said, “lots of Stravinsky, because I’m a big fan.” A Conductor Following Family Footsteps and Blazing a Trail 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Schamus doesn’t just cut out the Beethoven; he cuts the heart out of the novel and delivers only its inert remains to the screen. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

“He was much more than a pianist; he was a student of the whole literature. He knew the Beethoven symphonies and quartets by memory.” Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

Beethoven originally intended the “Eroica” as a paean to Napoleon, but when Napoleon crowned himself emperor, the composer recast the work as a portrait of an idealized hero who would fight tyranny. Music Review: The Modern Beethoven Ends at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-16T21:15:58Z

Everybody leads toward Beethoven in a direct way or an abstract way. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Beethoven May Not Have Died of Lead Poisoning, After All Scientists began speculating about what really killed Ludwig van almost as soon as he was buried in 1827. Did Beethoven Die of Lead Poisoning? Maybe Not 2010-05-28T22:04:00Z

Live from Kennedy Center, it’s the star violinist Joshua Bell conducting this orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 — which is famous for its second movement, the captivating Allegretto. What’s on TV Saturday: Alec Baldwin Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The institute’s spring series, subtitled “Beethoven and Beyond,” brings leading musicians and students together to explore works by that greatest of masters, as well as music by a prominent contemporary composer. Cultural Clicks: Frida Kahlo’s Lovers and Parenting Advice from Metallica’s James Hetfield 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

More underrated, but no less accomplished, are her Beethoven interpretations, a sampling of which comes in a program of his cosmic final piano sonatas. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

In Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, a husband murders his wife after hearing her play Beethoven with a stranger: the intensity of their musical connection drives him mad with jealousy. Scottish Ensemble ? review 2010-12-17T22:45:00Z

Brahms and Beethoven and Tchaikovsky are all great. At 100, orchestra has a midlife crisis 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The first program I heard was one of three that intriguingly paired the piano concertos of Beethoven with works by Ralph Vaughan Williams. A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

Of unusual interest on the Symphony Center Presents Piano Series will be two recitals by Andras Schiff devoted to the final sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. CSO goes back to the future for 2015-16 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Beethoven is probably the most iconic of composers,” he said. Advertising: WQXR Calls on Beethoven to Help Lift Its Profile 2011-10-30T22:35:31Z

The first movement didn’t weather the storm particularly well; the pounding rain created a percussive tableau through which wafted only muted fragments of Beethoven. Music Review: Emanuel Ax and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor 2012-07-16T21:48:04Z

The Fourth Concerto is one of Beethoven’s most poetic creations, and few pianists could be better suited to it in that vein than Ms. Uchida. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

It seems that people who are experts in plainsong don't look at Beethoven sketches very much and people who are experts in Beethoven sketches don't look at plainsong very much. 'Lost' Beethoven hymn unearthed 2012-10-24T23:51:27Z

That was the series that began unforgettably with Bernstein analyzing the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony while he and the musicians strolled over a giant reproduction of the first page of the score. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Some critics and patrons found his Beethoven performances uninspired. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

“When you play Brahms or Beethoven, technically you really need to focus on pieces that are incredibly and exhaustively demanding,” Mr. Siem said. The Violinist Charlie Siem Strikes a High Note in Fashion 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Swap the rave music for Ravel and substitute breakbeat with a glorious blast of Beethoven. Why you should consider adding classical music to your exercise playlist 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

It is based on a single, quirky melody in constant, telling transformation that is as close to a Beethoven late slow quartet movement that Reich is ever likely to get. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

If they were going to do a music video, the film-makers could at least have let Beethoven ride around in a carriage that bounced up and down like Dr Dre's car. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

If there was a misstep on Tuesday, it was in following the bagatelle with Beethoven’s “Pathétique” Sonata, which might have provided an impassioned climax had it not been performed with such a level head. Review: Dvorak’s ‘Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

“The year 1809 was a prolific one for Beethoven,” it might begin. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Listen to the way Beethoven begins many of his overtures: "Pay attention: you are going to listen to me." Mark-Anthony Turnage: how I composed a fanfare for the Proms 2012-07-12T19:59:02Z

You might find a sleeker line or trill elsewhere; what Mr. Greenberg brought to Beethoven was honesty and deep consideration. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z

His music is a dialogue, homage and continuation of the essential concerns of the music he loves most: Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Mahler, Berg – as well as Rihm and Lachenmann. A guide to Jörg Widmann's music 2012-10-08T14:22:33Z

In “Absolute Jest,” the composer’s previous collaboration with the group, Adams borrowed fragments from Beethoven’s string quartets. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

I work on it quite differently from other Beethoven symphonies. Two to tango: Beethoven and Astor Piazzolla share SSO bill 2012-12-27T21:21:56Z

Alas, the BSO’s performance of Beethoven’s Ninth was undermined by another form of narcissism: that of the conductor. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

And in these programs, Mr. Nézet-Séguin is mostly sticking to the canon, including Beethoven, Haydn and Bruckner, with just one short piece by a living composer. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Anyone who attended his Beethoven and Bach cycles of the last few years knows what kind of treat he offers. Sheppard tackles Schubert at Meany on May 5 2010-05-04T20:23:00Z

They opened with the Sonata No. 6 in A, composed in 1802, the year in which Beethoven wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, a despairing letter to his brothers about his worsening deafness, which he never sent. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Completes a Beethoven Project 2010-05-16T21:44:00Z

Saturday evening's program certainly reflects a range of styles -- along with Gershwin, you'll hear Ravel's "Bolero," some Beethoven and an electrifying cello piece by Gulda, to be performed by cellist Joshua Roman. Lunch with Gershwin 2011-09-14T22:33:33Z

In a recent St Luke's concert, they played Brett Dean's confrontational Pastoral Symphony with the same fresh, buoyancy as their Beethoven Six. Nicholas Collon: 'We live in the era of iPod shuffle' 2011-07-27T20:46:00Z

Morlot is too gifted — and too serious — an artist to allow his Beethoven to remain for long at so rudimentary a level. Beethoven Loses to Piazzolla at the Seattle Symphony 2012-12-29T18:39:04Z

I still hold to the view that any evening spent in the company of Beethoven's only opera is a night well spent. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

An ardent champion of democracy, Beethoven was the first notable composer to take a daring public stance politically in his music. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

True, the Allies made use of Beethoven too: the opening motto of his Fifth Symphony — da-da-da-dum — is a Morse code V, for victory, and that became the Allied battle cry. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z

I think of Francisco Goya, the exact contemporary of Beethoven, and who also happened to go deaf. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

A Contemporary Conversation With Beethoven’s Sonatas Mannes College the New School for Music has offered an institute focusing on Beethoven for each of the past 12 years. Music Review: Beethoven Institute at Mannes College the New School for Music 2013-06-02T22:12:04Z

But Brahms was also a Classicist, trying to adapt the Beethoven heritage to the new age of Romanticism. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z

The site of the first UK performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is to be marked with a plaque. Plaque to mark Beethoven symphony 2013-08-08T17:32:15Z

And I think these are also hallmarks of Beethoven’s later music, and not just for piano. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

He was buoyant, opening with one of Bach’s most overtly jubilant cantatas and ending with what the conductor described as the most joyous symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Seventh. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

I want your soul to soar because you heard Beethoven’s Sixth at the New World Symphony or because you heard a rapper that really spoke to you at a concert. He Brought an Artistic Flair to the Knight Foundation’s Philanthropy 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The echo added intriguing twists to the main theme of Beethoven’s “Egmont” Overture, which concluded the program. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Visits Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 2010-06-01T23:41:00Z

By age 12, Beethoven was a published composer. Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

They illustrate a more entertaining side of Beethoven, who wrote them 21 years before the “Hammerklavier” and probably after attending rehearsals of the oratorio in Berlin. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z

So it made sense, he thought, to precede “Absolute Jest” with something by Stravinsky — here a nuanced and supple account of the neo-Classical “Orpheus” — and to end with Beethoven’s Fourth. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Orchestras of the time were not a static phenomenon, but an evolving one, making use of the latest evolving technology as regards the woodwind and brass instruments, rather as Beethoven’s symphonies evolved. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach. What happened to angry female music stars? 2010-03-25T22:30:00Z

He explained that he was putting together a team to complete Beethoven's 10th Symphony in celebration of the composer's 250th birthday. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Andres is an accomplished pianist, as is Anthony Cheung: A coincidental set of commissions, two of them responses, allowed him to explore his relationship with Beethoven. Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

I wish the musical concept — Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with a beat — had been a little less tired, or the beat actually fresh, but the dancers were having fun. Review: The Kids (in New Hands) Are Still All Right 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

This year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Cheer’ and ‘Pavarotti’ 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

In any case, here's hoping Abbado's energies return by the summer, and with them the performances of Beethoven's Fidelio and Mahler's Ninth Symphony he will lead at the Lucerne festival. Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle: a tale of two conductors 2010-05-26T15:42:00Z

Harrison Hollingsworth, the ensemble’s assistant conductor, opened the program with an exciting rendition of the overture to Beethoven’s “Creatures of Prometheus,” notable for its polish, vigor and energy. Music Review: New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-28T21:07:40Z

Momentum was the determining factor in a breathtaking Beethoven Seventh as well. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

I know all Leonidas’s repertoire, but especially his Beethoven concerto and all the sonatas. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

Again, the intended balance between solo and orchestra cannot be fully known, but Chalifour avoided the notion that a classical concerto represented the individual against the masses, something that is prevalent in Beethoven performance. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

He led a tense, vigorously goal-directed, impressively impatient Beethoven Fifth. With his L.A. Phil program, here's what a man of mystery portends for New York 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

A turntable playing Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” endlessly repeats; unclaimed luggage circles aimlessly on an airport carousel. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Beethoven’s Fourth is not the ugly duckling of the symphonies so much as the modest, slender person crushed on the subway bench between two massive manspreaders. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Jeffrey Kahane’s mission in his final season with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has become — with the help of the likes of Kurt Weill and Beethoven — an extraordinary encouragement to lift our voices. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The Majestic Theatre stands as the crown jewels of the San Antonio theatre district From Broadway to Beethoven, the Majestic Theatre stands as the crown jewels of the San Antonio theatre district. Top 10 arts and culture venues in San Antonio, Texas 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z

New Sibelius and Beethoven cycles are among the orchestra’s coming recording plans, along with releases of older material. The Berlin Philharmonic Comes to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

There's a novelty track on there – Walter Murphy's A Fifth of Beethoven – but it had already been a huge hit a year before the album came out. My favourite album: the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack 2011-08-02T18:03:22Z

Perhaps a bit unfortunately, it never approached the arduousness experienced by Beethoven’s contemporaries. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

One could even anticipate a ‘St. Matthew Passion’ or Beethoven Ninth, not only with complete assurance but a real sense of occasion.” Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

In Beethoven’s sketches, he writes that the “speaker” now says, “No, what I ask for is more pleasant.” What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

It was composed as part of Liszt’s plan to commission a Beethoven statue, and it uses the storminess and monumentality of Beethoven’s late music as its starting point. Music Review: Composers? Influences, Side by Side 2010-09-01T21:52:00Z

The Beethoven was equally gripping, an essay in opulent string sound, singing woodwinds and punchy, precision brass figures, all molded into a grand, furious explosion of early Romanticism. Music Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Juilliard Orchestra at Tully Hall 2012-04-05T21:20:41Z

Another highlight of the season, “Beethoven at 250,” featuring the orchestra performing and recording all nine symphonies between May 28 and June 14, has not been canceled. After $25 million stimulus, stunned NSO players receive one-week notice from Kennedy Center 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

All in a day’s work, he smoothly boasts, for “the Beethoven of private pathologists.” Review: In Fox’s ‘Rosewood,’ a Cocky Crime Pathologist in Sultry Miami 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Pianist Llyr Williams is tackling the Beethoven sonata cycle over one year in a series of concerts at Perth Concert Hall, but other venues are reaping the occasional benefit, too. Llyr Williams 2010-07-19T21:31:00Z

The society will participate in exhibits in New York and London featuring manuscript versions of Beethoven's last symphony which contains the "Ode to Joy" that has become a theme song for world peace and freedom. "Ode to Joy" for Royal Philharmonic Society's 200th 2012-11-07T14:53:10Z

“It’s kind of like the Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony of the ballet world,” said de Cou. Emil de Cou on the ‘genius’ of ‘Swan Lake’ 2013-04-03T23:32:33Z

It involves a baby-grand piano with a hole cut through its center, making room for a performer who plays the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony from the inside. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z

Bach, who blazed a new path, or of course for the wonders soon to be heard in the Vienna of Vivaldi’s dreams by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Review | Europa Galante scores with Vivaldi 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

“We’re not at the place where we can show you a score by Beethoven and get it right all the time. But you have real control. It’s not random.” Meet the encephalophone: An instrument you can play with your mind, just by thinking 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

To a composer, however, the fact that Beethoven was able to "write in his head", and get the music straight from there on to paper, is actually not so surprising. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

You just don’t hear orchestras proclaiming their coming Beethoven performances as the same old same old, even when the odds are that they will be. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

And in the double-stopped opening of the Beethoven, his vibrato was so wide that it distorted the harmonies. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Gone are the frames and the meditative stillness viewers are used to in museums, replaced by huge images that transform to the music of artists as varied as Beethoven and Janis Joplin. Famous Paintings Go on Show, Without a Canvas in Sight 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

But once the music plays -- it's really between Beethoven and the listener at that point. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

It is intentional that his first weeks feature not just Stravinsky, Beethoven and Bruckner, but also three premieres: Ms. Fure’s and others by the young composer Conrad Tao and the Dutch eminence Louis Andriessen. A High-Pressure Countdown for the New York Philharmonic’s New Maestro 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

At one point, Tines had planned to sing a gospel hymn, “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow,” and segue into the beginning of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Two Musicians of Color Are Creating Their Own Space 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In the “Sorrow” section, a richly played account of Arvo Pärt’s “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten” and a soulful reading of the Beethoven Funeral March framed Mr. Haas’s gently meditative “Sorrow.” Music Review: Classical Mash-Up And Remix 2011-02-17T22:59:39Z

Last April he fired a broadside at Beethoven, writing that it would be academically irresponsible to call him more than an “above average” composer. Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

And since no figure in the classical music firmament looms as large as Ludwig van Beethoven, the classical music world was counting on the composer’s 250th birthday this year as a major selling point. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

His recordings have swollen from a collection of four Beethoven sonatas to the entire cycle; his performances, from a traditional recital to, as of Sunday, a livestream lasting over 15 hours. ‘I Just Let Myself Go’: Igor Levit on Surviving a Satie Marathon 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

Famous for writing Intel's signature bong jingle, Werzowa was tasked with putting together a new kind of composition that would integrate what Beethoven left behind with what the AI would generate. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

On Friday at 8:30 p.m., the talented British conductor Edward Gardner leads a program of Strauss, Copland and Beethoven, with the baritone Thomas Hampson as the soloist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

He followed up with an encore that sounded like Beethoven, but with a twist — a twist that lay entirely in his rapid-fire performance of it, which made it sound exposed and breathless and new. Review | A concert that lives up to its promise: Trifonov rules at NSO 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

After the concerts, as Mr. Zimerman told me in a 1997 interview, he sat down with Bernstein to find dates to record the first two Beethoven concertos, as well. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Matthew Gilbert seems born to play Beethoven — raging, misunderstood, unapologetic, and still full of boundless idealism as he tries to heal the world without being able to heal himself. ArtsWest stages NW premiere of ‘33 Variations’ 2013-05-06T19:15:26Z

And because the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Beethoven concerts were an addition to its others planned at Carnegie this season, it has become the hall’s de facto house band. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

That I found it hard to classify is hopefully a sign that Mr. Biss’s Beethoven is on its way to becoming nothing but its own. Jonathan Biss Plays Beethoven at the 92nd Street Y 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

He describes his work with them as deeply rewarding, and not only because it’s allowing him to explore new repertory, like Beethoven symphonies. The music man: Josh Bell at mid-career 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

My only reservation is that the mezzo-soprano Irene Snyder — awkwardly placed for the audience — seldom showed good diction in the Beethoven songs. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

But the whole thing was flawlessly dovetailed, and at least as neat as the regular setup for Beethoven, involving a separate soloist and conductor. Philharmonia/Schiff ? review 2011-03-24T21:45:01Z

His recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas with the wonderful Italian pianist Enrico Pace is one of the finest introductions to the cycle. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z

I like to say that we had Beethoven, Mozart and Bach on the same label.” ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés 2013-07-25T21:36:16Z

Still, Mr. Crawford’s conception of the Beethoven registered clearly enough in a taut, driven first movement; a crisp, sharply articulated Molto Vivace; and a sweetly spun Adagio. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at St. John the Divine 2010-04-26T22:41:00Z

The fights are a cacophony of comic book-esque jabs and hits, interspersed with Beethoven’s Symphony No 5. My streaming gem: why you should watch Catfight 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Though Mr. Lewis has a wide repertory, he has been making his name through his performances and recordings of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and piano concertos on the Harmonia Mundi label. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

But Honeck seems to move beyond all that, delivering a thrilling account of Beethoven’s most purely exciting piece. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

That, it turns out, is exactly what we needed in this year of Beethoven saturation. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

What the society’s program on Sunday afternoon showed, curiously, was not the kinship between Beethoven and Brahms but the distance between them. Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z

That was particularly effective in the Brahms, but it worked its magic in the finale of the Beethoven too. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: A Conductor and a Violinist Turn Fresh Eyes on a Beloved Beethoven and a Brahms 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z

A. If you listen to that piece by Beethoven, it’s full of pain. A Word With: Craig Lucas: The Theater of Faith and Doubt, Love and Pain 2014-02-25T22:07:04Z

This week, Seattle Opera is offering ordinary folks two chances to be a part of its next production: "Fidelio," Beethoven's only opera. How you can take part in Seattle Opera's 'Fidelio' 2012-09-07T21:28:04Z

Kluger, a Pulitzer winner for his history of the cigarette industry, turns to fiction for the seventh time, producing a historical tale about Beethoven and a 10th symphony he never completed. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek has written about this — specifically, on how Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” has repeatedly served as an empty signifier, “a symbol that can stand for anything.” Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

And the pianist skillfully refined his touch to convey Beethoven’s chaotic outbursts or reflect his withdrawals into solemn introspection. John O’Conor performs at Catholic University for International Piano Festival

Beethoven was represented by the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, played in reverse order. Prom 12: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review 2012-07-24T13:38:30Z

Earlier that evening he will be the soloist with the Mostly Mozart orchestra in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

The Dude, as he was affectionately called, spread the joy of Beethoven's famous "Ode to Joy" as easily as if it were jam on bread. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s Second and Eighth framed “Sermon,” a suite of arias and spoken texts about race and struggle organized and performed by the young bass-baritone Davóne Tines. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is New York’s Conductor Now 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

The Beethoven survey at Carnegie continues with the first of three concerts from this chamber-music supergroup, all of which feature a cello sonata, a violin sonata and a piano trio: here, the Cello Sonata Op. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Beethoven’s last sonata, which eludes pianists three times Trifonov’s age, will be tougher still. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

His music has never been in fashion, and may never be — he was open about not aspiring to be a Beethoven — but it rewards those who seek it out. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

As Carnegie’s promotional materials put it, Beethoven “rouses our spirits, moves us to tears, and inspires our most profound thoughts”; he is “without challenge the face of Western classical music.” Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

As Beethoven grew older, his sonata form got shorter and shorter. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Another spring highlight, the National Symphony Orchestra’s “Beethoven at 250” celebration, set for May 28 though June 14, has been scrapped for now, and will be rescheduled for sometime next season. ‘Hamilton’ run postponed as Kennedy Center extends closure through Aug. 8 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

The label made its debut in June with a lavish, eclectic three-disc box set that runs from Beethoven and Strauss, by way of Prokofiev and Varèse, to contemporary pieces. The Cleveland Orchestra, America’s Finest, Restarts Recording 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

He made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony last year in a program of Beethoven and Strauss; it got so-so notices. Can a Star Conductor Finally Make It Work in America? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Oppens produced a lean and confident sound in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, allowing the storytelling of the music to come to the fore. Review: Pianist Ursula Oppens Seamlessly Connects the Classics With New Music 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

He will perform three Beethoven concerti, as well as piano recitals featuring a variety of repertoire. Kennedy Center plans Nordic arts festival in 2013 2012-03-06T16:52:10Z

Mr. van Zweden will conduct plenty of old favorites, including Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and works by Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich. The New York Philharmonic’s Fresh Start: A Season Spent at Home 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

And the staggeringly difficult Sonata No. 2 seemed more than ever a young composer’s modernist retort to Beethoven’s mighty “Hammerklavier.” Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

But their articulation came sharply into focus with the Menuetto, a kind of artistic coming-of-age, with flashes of the Beethoven to come. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

From their origins in the Baroque period, bagatelles were generally light, mellow pieces for solo piano, until Beethoven pushed them to newly profound places. Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The rise in volume in the Beethoven traces an exponential curve, with a long passage of tense quiet leading to a swift increase of volume. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms all “loved and had keen interest in C.P.E. Bach’s music,” Mr. Serkin adds in the recording’s liner notes. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Do you know that it took Beethoven eight years to get the first several notes of the second movement of his Fifth Symphony together? Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

But when you play Bach or Beethoven, you get judged. Adventurous violinist Leila Josefowicz to make a Seattle appearance 2011-03-31T20:38:06Z

I’m talking about Mozart, I’m talking about Beethoven, I’m talking about Schubert. Golden Globes 2016: The Revenant wins top prizes as Gervais skewers the stars 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Lill’s Seattle performance is situated between two phases of an ambitious project to perform all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, England. John Lill to perform Beethoven, more at Benaroya April 30 2014-04-24T20:45:08Z

A bagatelle the length of a pop song, Beethoven’s trifle is recognizable from the start: a wobble between E and D sharp that gives way to a tune you’ve heard virtually everywhere. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

And so Sparks were able to continue to create remarkable work like the single “When Do I Get to Sing My Way?”  and their 2002 masterpiece “Lil’ Beethoven.” Sparks: The true godfathers of free-form, eclectic modern rock 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

As Lu Hongen, then the conductor of the Shanghai Symphony, was led off by the police in shackles, he asked his colleagues to lay flowers on the tomb of Beethoven. Chinese Composers With an Ear to the World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

The Nobel award committee's citation called her the "Mozart of poetry," a woman who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven" and tackled serious subjects with humor. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z

Vanishingly few conductors dare program Beethoven with his historical contemporaries, to show just what made him exceptional. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Beethoven's songs are often considered erratic when, in fact, they constitute a relentless assault on formal and ideological boundaries. Schade/Martineau ? review 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

The Beethoven performances the Artemis offered were remarkably cogent and organic. Music Review | Artemis Quartet: Beethoven That Is Robust, if a Little Strange 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z

Initially I thought that Mr. Noseda’s approach to this early Beethoven work would not be to my taste. Music Review: Gianandrea Noseda in His Mostly Mozart Debut 2013-08-14T21:01:46Z

Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news, because it’s classical night on . Dancing with the Stars Watch: Putting the Classy in Classical 2012-05-01T12:30:56Z

And production of the Beethoven episode — which Lynch envisions as a televised stage play of sorts, loosely informed by “Flamenco” director Carlos Saura and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro — has also been delayed. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Musicians often focus on one or several composers at different stages in their careers, but Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti and Ives — the backbone of Mr. Denk’s recent recitals — are a more unusual combination. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z

At home there would be Beethoven and Brahms, but on the set he’d be accompanying stories and puppet shows with whistles and duck calls. Percussionist Paul Hansen keeps the beat all over Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:03Z

Aside from the basic sound world and the four-movement structure that Haydn largely established and that Beethoven transformed, the works have little in common. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z

We challenged the audience to determine where Beethoven's phrases ended and where the AI extrapolation began. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

As Padel perceives it, Beethoven early on drifted into states that prefigured how deafness would increasingly isolate him: Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Two days before, he informed the world: "Bloody Beethoven – learning music is hardly ever fun." Tenor Wynne Evans undone by tweets 2010-07-13T21:00:00Z

And thanks to Adams, that Beethoven loomed large at the start of Sunday's matinee. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

One can only sympathise, with them and Beethoven. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

But in Beethoven’s Second Symphony — a classic that is still somehow underrated — he was superb, with his deliberate, even careful conducting yielding a graceful, stylish interpretation. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

His bête noire was the widespread notion that Beethoven symphonies and Bach cantatas could be divorced from their historical contexts. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

"I mean, I do play Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and other things - Britten, for example," he said, referring to the British composer's violin concerto coupled on his Challenge Classics recording with Weinberg's concerto. German violinist Roth champions 'forgotten' Weinberg 2014-03-04T08:03:44Z

Berry invoked Beethoven to represent the music of high culture that rock and roll was replacing — for his youthful audience. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

But if nothing stops her Beethoven, nothing's going to stop her. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

An orchestra finds its own voice, Dausgaard believes, through intensive endeavors like the Beethoven festival planned for June next year. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

If, back then, the group’s members were pioneers in respect to race and repertoire, it is hardly novel today to see Asian soloists and ensemble players performing Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in concert halls. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

A group of elementary school children filed in, sat on rainbow-colored mats, and began playing air piano to Beethoven. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

His deafness won him praise as Japan’s modern-day Ludwig van Beethoven. Renowned Japanese classical-music composer admits fraud 2014-02-07T02:56:26Z

This spring Jeffrey Kahane helped to bring his tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to a close with a moving talk about Beethoven’s unique ability to convey democratic ideals. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Yes, I know: Another week, another Beethoven concerto. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The program, which also features Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, highlights Mr. Gilbert’s affinity for Scandinavian music, fostered during his stint as chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The Week Ahead: Jan. 23 ? 29 2011-01-21T16:42:50Z

Mr Swafford supplies enough context for the reader to understand how all this affected Beethoven the man and the musician. Sturm und Drang 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The Beethoven is spiky, its moods forbiddingly changeable. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z

The Gould Piano Trio's Beethoven series, celebrating their 20th anniversary year, reached its culmination with this concert of the composer's first and last works in the medium. Gould Piano Trio – review 2012-05-24T13:58:27Z

Tempos are not extreme, but often vary considerably within individual movements, as Beethoven said they should. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The last song on “Fast Forward,” “Ode to Joy,” riffs on his hero, Beethoven, in the chorus. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

It's a programme that will bring alive the competing sides of Beethoven's character. BBC Proms 2010-07-23T05:44:00Z

Ms. Lack was still a teenager when she began embarking on worldwide tours, drawing praise for her intensity and warmth of tone in concertos and sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn and others. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

“I always say to them, ‘I expect all of you to agree on how to play Beethoven,’” Barenboim recently told The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Baroness Von Sketch Show’ and ‘The Cry’ 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Williams is a good bet, but so is Beethoven. Gustavo Dudamel and Youth Orchestra L.A.'s Super Bowl halftime show will be a win for the arts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

They play rousing Beethoven and romantic Tchaikovsky with an irresistible, heart-warming commitment and flair. Gustavo Dudamel and Youth Orchestra L.A.'s Super Bowl halftime show will be a win for the arts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

After the current program of works by Rossini, Magnus Lindberg and Beethoven, he leads music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Prokofiev and — like the Mahler, a prime assignment — Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” starting next Thursday. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

The neighborhood isn’t showy, but it’s a pleasant, relatively tree-lined environment, and its older residents get together in informal groups to listen to and discuss Beethoven. Review: Intimate Struggles Come to Life in ‘After the Storm’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The program ended with an exhilarating account of Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

In an interview with Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, she described her creative practice and her exploration of the music of Beethoven, who gradually lost his hearing and by his 40s was almost totally deaf. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

As part of a recent interactive project I invited readers to share their choices of great surprises in music, and several suggested this unexpected episode in this Beethoven work. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z

“It really looked like Picasso painting, or like Beethoven playing his piano,” Mr. Formichetti said. Ryder Ripps: An Artist of the Internet 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Whereas Beethoven always seems to find an answer, Schubert almost never does. Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Beethoven jokes with me, and he claims he didn’t wear a wig, and I prove potentially otherwise,” Mr. Perlmutter said. ‘Beethoven’s Wig’ Combines Classical Music With Seussian Whimsy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Beethoven originally conceived a complex closing fugue, included in the work’s first performance, in 1826; the mixed response led his publisher to persuade him to substitute a new Allegro finale. Music in Review 2011-01-24T23:22:42Z

The last took place on Dec. 16, Beethoven’s birthday. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Her trills twinkling, her playing more personal than performative, she followed Beethoven’s leap to the cosmos and remained with him to the whispered final measure. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

That may be a personal feeling, because its was the first Beethoven quartet playing I heard, and its recordings remain the ones I most often return to. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The Haydn symphony and the Beethoven concerto, on the other hand, represent each composer at his height, and each performance was a joy. Mostly Mozart Showcase Three Masters at Lincoln Center 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

When Twyla Tharp choreographed Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, she insisted on top billing. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

With his strict analytical clarity and his facility for transparency, Gielen stripped as much personal emotion out of scores as he could, which had immense payoffs in Mahler, even in Beethoven. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

That's on top of several major concert series, including all Schumann's songs from the year 1840, a survey of a century of German Lieder, and a cycle of Beethoven string quartets from the Artemis Quartet. This week's new live music 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Morris, known for his studies of Theodore Roosevelt, Ludwig van Beethoven and Ronald Reagan, keeps the book afloat with his talent for spinning a narrative. 18 New Books to Watch For in October 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The blasts of Beethoven and the jaunty celestial displays between scenes accentuate the briskness of Zaks’ staging. Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key lend star power to 'Meteor Shower,' but it's still space junk 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

That energy is not at all benign; for Gielen, the violence in Beethoven’s scores is as much a part of their humanity as their idealism is. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

This was Beethoven as shock therapy, and while undeniably impressive, it left a good deal unresolved. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

"Being outside our tradition makes it easier to come back in and play a Beethoven quartet because we know what it's like trying to put a piece together," says Jacobsen from his home in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Rider: String quartet goes all over the map 2012-01-27T19:00:07Z

Beethoven takes a kind of comic tune and puts it through a series of improbable yet triumphant variations. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

But Dudamel's approach was to dig deep into what made Beethoven. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Fry responded in an angry public letter that went on for four pages in Willis’s magazine and condemned standard symphonic writing, including pieces by Mozart and Beethoven. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

It was a performance that captured Beethoven at his most human. Review | A mother and son making beautiful music together 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere he calls Redding “one of the top artists in music history.”Roll over Beethoven, indeed. ‘Dreams to Remember’ review: An homage to Otis Redding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

“Which master managed, as Beethoven did in his late music, to weld together present, past and future, the sublime and the profane?” Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Both Haydn and Beethoven swore by it; its use remained widespread long into the 19th century. CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z

The children’s programs begin on Saturday with “Mode to Joy — Hear, Taste and See Beethoven!” Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Schumann wrote his Fantasy, an epic, idiosyncratic 30-minute piece in three movements, in homage to Beethoven. Music Review: Pianist at Last Has Carnegie All to Himself 2011-01-23T22:42:27Z

Under Muti, the orchestra has still been able to produce, say, a Beethoven’s Fifth of blistering force, but he generally wanted something more Italianate. For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

Both here and in Beethoven after intermission the orchestra played superbly. Review: Northwest Sinfonietta kicks off 20th year with Austro-German classics 2010-10-02T19:29:00Z

The Mendelssohn Piano Trio plans to perform all of Beethoven’s piano trios during the next three years, a journey that began Sunday afternoon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Steinway Series. Mendelssohn Piano Trio Studies Beethoven at American Art Museum’s Steinway Series

As Beethoven found eternity through his music, so Ford will find it in a robot whose consciousness is tempered by his own. Westworld finale recap – robot army, assemble! 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

The festivities continue this week, with the Festival Chamber Orchestra performing works for wind, strings and voice, by Max Bruch, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Beethoven. Classical & Opera Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Julian Rachlin, the newly appointed principal guest conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, will lead the orchestra through a performance of works from Mozart and Beethoven, at the Barbican in London. Player/conductor role: 'exciting' 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Now that student, having taken the baton from Beethoven, is ready to present the 10th Symphony to the world. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Ever since then, Beethoven fans and musicologists have puzzled and lamented over what could have been. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Fifty years later, in 1990, he conducted the last performance of his life there — a gripping account of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Bernstein in the Berkshires: Tanglewood to Celebrate a Local Hero 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

ECM decided to push ahead with its Beethoven theme, but with a radically altered sense of focus and purpose. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Now he was seeking a new path,” Mr. Downes says of the Beethoven of the Ninth as distinct from the composer of the eight earlier symphonies. Tanglewood’s Archival Magic Still Casts a Spell 2012-06-28T15:03:28Z

As a rule, I’m not keen on complete Beethoven cycles, precisely because these scores remain such fixtures of our musical lives. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Short of bringing out a bazooka, he relied on defiant intensity to evoke the spirit of Beethoven as revolution. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

In a later interview with H. L. Mencken, Muck claimed that on one hot day he and his musicians performed Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony in the nude. The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

As a child, she was drawn to the lyricism of his preludes for piano, even as she followed a strict conservatory regimen of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

It’s too easy for us to say that the people who liked Wölfl were stupid, that they didn’t recognize the genius of Beethoven. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

In nine succinct movements, with titles like “Remote,” “Mysterious” and “Forceful,” this work weaves glancing — and distorted — references to piano trios by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others into his own intricate, emotionally focused language. Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Pays Tribute to Previn at Carnegie Hall 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Although the cycle started last fall when the Fifth Symphony opened Carnegie’s season, it was delayed once again in January when the Omicron variant pushed off Beethoven’s Ninth — and its full-choir “Ode to Joy.” Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Some once thought she was the “Immortal Beloved,” the anonymous woman to whom Beethoven wrote a passionate letter that was discovered after he died. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s opera celebrates liberty, standing up to injustice and heroic marital devotion. Review: Spruce and Taut, the Met Opera’s ‘Fidelio’ Looks Good at 17 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

I was recording Haydn and Beethoven in parallel. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s not that he’s suddenly employing the rigorous architecture of, say, a Beethoven symphony. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

That's one way SPO's engaging music director and conductor, Adam Stern, characterizes the ensemble's bill, called "Beethoven: Defiance Incarnate," taking place on Sunday afternoon at Meany Hall. Preview: Seattle Philharmonic stocks Meany concert with 'royalty' 2011-01-20T22:25:04Z

The Beethoven concerto is one of the most important pieces from the Classical period. Globe-trotting guest conductor Gilbert Varga lands in Seattle for first time 2010-04-14T22:04:00Z

Schiff also played a recital of the last piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in Santa Barbara recently and last Sunday at Walt Disney Concert Hall.  A busy Andras Schiff says Haydn's 'Mass in Time of War' has relevance in today's world 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

I’m not just talking about playing beautifully, as he did in works by Beethoven and Ligeti for a program with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Review: Chamber Music Society Performs Ligeti’s Trio 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

I play a few notes of Beethoven very badly on the piano. Tanya Gold ? the opera 2010-04-12T21:00:00Z

One night, an unsmiling Christian Thielemann sticks to serious Beethoven and Bruckner with his Dresden State Orchestra. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

After six years playing Beethoven and almost only Beethoven, however, Lewis has a striking view on his musical relationship to Schubert. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

Vienna was then in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars; Beethoven was isolated and confronting his increasing deafness. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The night before they had been two thirds of the solo team in the Beethoven Triple Concerto; here it was the Brahms Double, and the familiarity between players brought nothing but benefits. Prom 6: OPRF/Chung ? review 2011-07-20T09:48:43Z

“If Frank Sinatra can be tops in his field, Nat Cole in his, Bach and Beethoven and those guys in theirs, why can’t I be great and known for it in the blues?” B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

And the results can be muddled; is the “artist” Beethoven, the orchestra, the conductor or some combination? Spotify?s Classical-Streaming Service Takes Baby Steps 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

Again with Beethoven in mind and again writing for the Berlin Philharmonic, he made his Ninth a choral symphony — and a drama — telling a story of desperation and hope set during the Nazi epoch. Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z

After all, she folded several surprise Easter eggs into the work: As I neared the Beethoven statue on the Mall, a recording of his “Pastoral” Symphony began. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Appearing under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, this engaging foursome performs the third of Mozart’s “Prussian” quartets, Beethoven’s titanic Op. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

It’s been immensely rewarding to observe Morlot’s growing confidence and sense of authority with the Beethoven canon. A pair of striking debuts at Seattle Symphony 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Beethoven was a revolutionary mind and this revolutionary spirit is in each sonata. | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z

Yet both are revolutionary works of art: Beethoven's for being the first symphony to include a chorus; Shostakovich for his failure to provide one. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z

Beethoven uses the cellos and basses like a song without words, a recitative without words. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Between living-room performances of Chopin and Beethoven, Herz-Sommer relates terrible days of Nazi occupation and surviving a concentration camp. ‘Oscar Shorts 2014’: 5 documentaries in 2 parts 2014-02-20T19:47:56Z

This is the first season, the pianist Thomas Sauer said before a concert there on Friday, that Beethoven has shared the bill with a contemporary composer. Music Review: Beethoven Institute at Mannes College the New School for Music 2013-06-02T22:12:04Z

Liszt showed that here was an exhilarating Beethoven masterpiece. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Seeking an East Coast clientele, the Milwaukee brewery ran ads that broadcast “The night Beethoven outdrew the Beatles” and asked “Who’s afraid of Igor Stravinsky?” Celebrating 50 Years of New York Philharmonic Outdoor Concerts 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Beethoven is well known for music that conveys a sense of struggle, but there are many more ingredients in his complex musical personality. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

And when he did return, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on New Year’s Eve, critics’ accounts painted a grim picture, focusing mainly on the performance’s distended length. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

He was to have conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 to open the theater’s season, on Oct. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z

Dead world of aural nothingness … Ludwig van Beethoven. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Beethoven himself will not be neglected: the selections, largely orbiting around the key of C minor, will include the “Pathétique” Sonata and the String Trio, Op. Cultural Clicks: Frida Kahlo’s Lovers and Parenting Advice from Metallica’s James Hetfield 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s solution was to set the Mass text according to his own sense of its dramatic and emotional possibilities. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival With Martin Fröst and Louis Langrée 2012-08-26T21:35:23Z

Before playing Beethoven’s Opus 109 Piano Sonata, Mr. Sherman spoke briefly about his decision to include it in the program and about what Schoenberg learned from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.  Music Review: A Piano Tour of Schoenberg?s Career 2011-06-16T22:11:12Z

Rollover Beethoven ... the composer's nine symphonies will be performed this Saturday at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Move over Jack Bauer ... Brabbins gives Beethoven just 24 hours 2010-07-13T14:52:00Z

Out in the shop, jolted back to normality, you can stock up on Beethoven keyrings, snowstorm globes, fridge magnets and baseball caps. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

Beethoven wrote the piano trio version around 1800, an almost identical twin to its string predecessor with a few surface differences in balance and texture created by the piano. Music Review: Beethoven Project Trio at Alice Tully Hall 2010-05-19T22:16:00Z

When Beethoven left again for Vienna — this time, for good — his Bonn friends signed an autograph album for him. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Although it received its English premiere in 1825, the official debut, with Beethoven in attendance, took place in Vienna a year earlier. Plaque to mark Beethoven symphony 2013-08-08T17:32:15Z

You can now choose to listen to Beethoven every moment of your life without lifting a finger, given that streaming offers effortless access. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Brendan Patrick Hogan's sound score is a savvy mélange of bebop and Beethoven. In Seattle Rep's 'Red,' artists go to battle armed with paint 2012-03-02T19:27:03Z

BA Conductor Daniel Barenboim leads the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in its Royal Albert Hall romp through Beethoven's symphonies: tonight it's the fifth and sixth. TV highlights 26/07/12 2012-07-25T19:00:01Z

Last time, at those 2007 concerts at Carnegie, the composers included Berlioz, Chopin, Beethoven, Bartok, Shostakovich and Bernstein. The Week Ahead: Dec. 9 — 15 2012-12-09T08:00:06Z

Beethoven’s ode to joy in this choral scene is just as thrilling as his setting of Schiller’s actual “Ode to Joy” in the finale of his Ninth Symphony. Crowds Define Opera. They’re Also Keeping It From Returning. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Last month my colleague James R. Oestreich heard him at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland in the same program of Bach, Beethoven and Schubert he offered here. At Salzburg Festival, Musicians Tap Their Inner Mozarts and Schuberts 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

On Thursday he ticked another B off the list with a rendition of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann 2012-01-27T22:43:12Z

There is a special cloud in cello heaven for Beethoven. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

His Beethoven had heft and rectitude but it came across as ponderous and imposing, somehow above it all, rather like the hall itself. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

“He saw himself as an extension of great artists of the past, using their compositional techniques, idioms, instruments and aesthetics — and his love of Beethoven and Romantic-era composers,” Gregory Walker said. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Both quartets were published while Beethoven was in his 30s, and they show how remarkably quickly he was able to expand the scope, ambition and demands of the Haydn and Mozart string quartet model. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

In a music gallery that Christie’s has recreated, Beethoven is playing, and the paintings of Japanese geisha and pagodas on the wall were done by Huguette. Clark collection tells the story of a privileged and peculiar life

Beethoven sonatas are too often played for exams and competitions. | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z

Washington Concert Opera’s next performance is Beethoven’s “Leonore” on March 5. The sorely neglected opera that, performed like WCO did, could make opera a hit 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

If Beethoven could be shut down, what chance did the rest of us stand? Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

That goes for the core classics, like the Mozart and Beethoven on this program, and the Haydn on show in the preconcert recital. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Did Beethoven ask, ‘Was the second movement too dull?’ Dialing Up a Hit? Influence Over Musical Is in the Crowd’s Hands 2013-06-26T03:48:51Z

Beethoven shows in the first movement the art of motivic technique, using a small, atomic element and developing it. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

“I am excited that we are finding a way of engaging with the community to present Beethoven,” Dausgaard says. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

It brings tears to the eyes – eyes, which for Beethoven, became his ears. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

The new work for her 10-member company, is called “Fifth” and refers to other famous fifths: the dimension, the element, the position, the amendment and, of course, Beethoven’s. Dance Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:51:52Z

But, in a year when celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth is all but inescapable, this was nonetheless a welcome, and informative, addition to the festivities. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

On Nov. 3 and 4, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who was recently appointed the next music director of the Metropolitan Opera, will lead concerts of music by Bartók, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

He briefly alludes to Beethoven in this work in three movements, each dedicated to a model, Dutilleux being the last. Review: New York Philharmonic Presents a World Premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Characteristically, the pawky Mr. Morris’s response to the lyrics is often as pointed as it is to Beethoven’s arrangements. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

All of German intellectual history—Goethe and Beethoven—was subverted by the Nazis. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

All the characters - and numerous extras - clamber up, down and around the transparent, multi-level maze throughout the evening, while the action plays out much as Beethoven intended until the final scene. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z

She played beautifully: her touch patrician in a Beethoven sonata; dreamy in one by Shostakovich; suave in one by Frank Bridge; and alert without being anxious in one by Britten. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Across the pond, Beethoven, Shelley and Byron were at work. The 200-Year-Old Bar Beloved by Book Editors and Longshoremen 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Each concert – except the final one on Friday which is devoted entirely to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth – frames a piece by Boulez with two symphonies. This week's new live music 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z

Founded concurrently with the orchestra in 1842, the archive includes about 6,500 letters, 7,000 program leaflets, autographed manuscripts, the memorabilia of composers like Beethoven and Mahler, and more. Vienna Philharmonic to Invest Nilsson Prize Money in Archive 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

They played Beethoven's Symphony No 1 and 2 with instruments that were around when Beethoven was writing these symphonies with the authentic method used to play them. On my radar: Park Chan-wook 2013-02-24T00:05:33Z

He emphasized the volatile mood of the opening movement of the Beethoven while also imbuing its introverted sections with a brooding intensity. Music Review: Murray Perahia at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-26T22:22:02Z

The program mixes rarities with favorites, including Beethoven’s “Adelaide” and Schubert’s “Erlkönig.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

"I feel like what I would love to do is broaden the audience of classical music, and not just Mozart and Beethoven but really contemporary music." Joshua Weilerstein, a recent Dudamel fellow, is back in L.A. as maestro 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

This is late Beethoven, the last piano work he published. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z

Despite having little use for visual metaphors, he knew very well what makes the hills “pure Beethoven.” Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The concert began with Beethoven’s lively Eighth Symphony, rendered rather squarely by Mr. Frühbeck, with exaggerated, momentum-killing pauses before the surprise blasts of fortissimo in the fourth movement. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Richard Strauss 2013-12-13T22:39:30Z

“This is a Beethoven experience, but told in a different way,” said Rue. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

With this work, he’s at it again, this time obsessing on shards from Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

While Barber’s Adagio can withstand the acoustical assault unleashed in the huge church, a Beethoven symphony is more likely to succumb to the echo. Barber?s Adagio Stands Up to Acoustic Retaliation 2011-05-31T14:00:05Z

Stalin also assumed the piece would be similar in scale and approach to Beethoven’s 9th. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z

The title "Defiance Incarnate" is largely a nod to Beethoven, who, Stern says, rejected musical rules all his life. Preview: Seattle Philharmonic stocks Meany concert with 'royalty' 2011-01-20T22:25:04Z

Topakian, the box’s curator, writes that a postwar Beethoven Seventh in Vienna represents Furtwängler “at his purest,” while the intensity of his Berlin account from 1942 was “nothing to do with the work.” A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The album features Berry tearing through classics like “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Johnny B. Goode.” Posthumous Chuck Berry live album to be released in December 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

They included Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the same music they played in Munich on the final night before the shutdown. Vienna Philharmonic purrs back to life after pandemic pause 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

He brings an astonishing demonic energy to the final movements of the Beethoven Seventh and the Schubert Ninth, but the effect is more battering than it is uplifting. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

It made me curious to hear Mr. Andsnes conduct a Beethoven symphony. Beethoven From Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

"He's in great shape," Edwards said of the singer of early rock classics such as "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven." Chuck Berry returns home after health scare 2011-01-03T16:23:08Z

Dare we compare the five notes of his famous “coyote call” in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” with the four opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony? Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

It’s everyday life, which you also have in “Pictures at an Exhibition,” or even in late Beethoven. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

When I started playing my own stuff, people in the classical world would say: "Who does he think he is, writing his own music when he could be playing Beethoven?" Nigel Kennedy 2013-03-05T17:45:00Z

Some suggest that Beethoven deemed the banal theme so insulting that he composed his tremendous set of variations — 23 at first, and eventually 10 more — in an act of colossal hubris. Music Review: Beth Levin Plays Beethoven Variations at Bargemusic 2010-07-04T21:51:00Z

In classical music, we’re hearing more and more performances of complete cycles: for instance, all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in a single day. Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Liszt’s piano transcriptions of the nine Beethoven symphonies are works of genius. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

By then completely deaf, Beethoven touched the mystical. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four 2011-01-10T17:10:24Z

The string quartet form was still young when Beethoven wrote his six Op 18. Beethoven: Quartets Op 18, Vol 1 – review 2013-06-01T23:05:20Z

Beethoven as a historical symbol, though, continued to fascinate Americans. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z

In composing the work, completed shortly before his death in 1827, Beethoven initially labeled this movement “Sweet Song of Rest.” Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays Beethoven, Mozart and Fauré 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

It is fitting, then, that this show will take place in Vienna’s Staatsoper, which after World War II was reopened with Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” a tribute to freedom. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Phil program featured two favorite Bowl composers, with pairs of works by Beethoven and Ravel. But there was a quirk. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Photograph: PA Adam Scovell is a writer and film-maker who runs celluloidwickerman.com In his ninth symphony, Beethoven put all of humanity into a piece of art. Clip joint: Beethoven's ninth symphony 2012-12-05T16:13:20Z

But might it be possible to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday this year without playing Beethoven? Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Bruckner was a Wagner devotee who strove to write spacious works that carried on, yet transformed the symphonic tradition as bequeathed from Haydn and Beethoven. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

The Beethoven performance, though not a model of precision, was elegant and insightful. Review: Anna Netrebko Saves the Day for the Met Orchestra 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Now, Lewis turns his attention to the work of the quintessential romantic figure, who himself adored Beethoven: Franz Schubert. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

After Chopin's mighty B minor sonata, Uchida's encore was the first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight"' sonata. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

Orchestra Celebrates 25th With Beethoven No. 9 For any artistic organization of independent means to survive and flourish for 25 years is a real achievement. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at St. John the Divine 2010-04-26T22:41:00Z

In many instances, the musicians played with the affective power of motion, especially where Beethoven interrupts the momentum with incessant questions, some profound, some comical. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

Slow and not entirely steady, this is such back-to-the-future Beethoven that it might have felt conservative two or three generations ago. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

The program, which ended with a rousing account of Beethoven’s jubilant “Choral Fantasy,” did not quite hold together. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Beethoven wound up occupying a central place in his diverse career. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The American and British manuscripts of the symphony, annotated by Beethoven, will be seen together side by side for the first time since 1824 in New York later in the year, the society said. "Ode to Joy" for Royal Philharmonic Society's 200th 2012-11-07T14:53:10Z

The first concert, pairing Beethoven and Mahler, is more obviously a showcase programme, but I'm excited about the second, which juxtaposes rich Wagner and Strauss with the sparseness of miniatures by Schoenberg, Webern and Berg. My perfect Proms 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

“It’s an incredible experience, watching the handwriting of Beethoven as it passes by you,” said Nicholas Kitchen, the group’s first violinist. Bytes and Beethoven 2011-01-16T03:00:04Z

How did a man described as a “half-insane rascal” and “pathetic dunderhead” rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven? The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

She has the might of a full orchestra, and preternatural clarity despite the volatility of Beethoven’s score. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The piece, “On the Transmigration of Souls,” received its premiere just weeks after the first anniversary of 9/11, sharing a program with Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

“Harmonielehre” is a hard act to follow, and Denk and a smaller ensemble had their work cut out for them in the Beethoven concerto. Composer John Adams does double duty at Strathmore with BSO 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

For Beethoven, she continues, this is the new “shocked calm of Is it true.” Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

One of her lasting childhood memories is of hearing Claudio Arrau playing the Beethoven 4th piano concerto, jolting through her body like electricity. Martha Argerich is a legend of the classical music world. But she doesn’t act like one. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

And Vänskä's insistence on precise enunciation in the finale of the Beethoven led to syllabic, declamatory singing from the BBC Symphony Chorus. Proms 56 & 57: Minnesota Orchestra/V?nsk? 2010-08-29T11:52:00Z

Beethoven spoke urgently of ideals toward which humanity must continue to aspire, and to Thursday’s politically weary audience, this performance was a reminder why this is one of the most enduring pieces ever written. Review | NSO program of music from Vienna strikes a chord — from Schoenberg to Beethoven 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

He excelled only when called on to be earnest and emphatic — and it was in the Wagner and Beethoven in the first half of the program, oddly enough, that his weaknesses were most apparent. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

But she is back on the European classical music scene, with a festival devoted to a different composer: Ludwig van Beethoven. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

I thought back to an early poem about Beethoven’s bullying father: Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The playing was mostly fine, except for a prominent wrong note somewhere in the violin section in the Beethoven and an early brass entrance in the Mendelssohn. BSO at Strathmore skips the uncommon music in season preview 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

As George Bernard Shaw wrote, Bach’s theme is religion and Mozart’s is characters, but “Beethoven was the first man who used music with absolute integrity as the expression of his own emotional life.” 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

But Adams didn't think it made a good match with the Beethoven. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

Now Beethoven was encouraging me to mourn, hypnotizing me with doleful, dronelike melody. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Lowery started Camper Van Beethoven in 1983 but grew to prominence with Cracker, which produced such hits as "Low" and "Get Off This." Cracker musician Lowery to teach UGA music class 2011-01-14T12:01:14Z

In an onstage interview one of the players explained that in the orchestra’s first decades there was disagreement about whether it was appropriate for that conductorless ensemble to play Beethoven at all. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-14T20:36:41Z

That afternoon, Mr. Adès led the Boston Symphony in a program that opened with Ives’s “Three Places in New England” and included two Beethoven staples. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Cage's attitude was that Beethoven had been in error because he created music defined by harmony. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

The other recording was a Columbia LP of Rudolf Serkin playing three titled piano sonatas by Beethoven: the “Pathétique,” the “Moonlight” and the “Appassionata.” A Critic’s Ode to a Childhood Joy in Classical Music 2013-07-17T16:12:32Z

As Beethoven saturates the field in 2020, it’s nice that the NSO is offering the cycle in such a concentrated form. Kennedy Center announces its 2019-20 classical music season 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

In “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” it’s used to identify Beethoven without even saying his name. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

And rather like some great symphonists — Beethoven and Mahler, for example — his big public buildings frequently fall into clusters or groupings, sharing DNA and variations on common themes. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

There was no time for pregnant pauses, which Beethoven theatrically throws in. A spiritually yearning Beethoven Ninth in Pasadena 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Beethoven felt like he was responding to Habibi, as much as vice versa. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven: He lost his hearing, but his marvelous music is loved all over the world: overtures, sonatas, concertos — we treasure it all. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

For a recital at Alice Tully Hall with the sensitive pianist Julius Drake, he ties a set of folk songs to a program of Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

A vivid purple and pink sunset dissolved into night while bright lamps blazed inside a vast tent as the Boston Symphony Orchestra began playing Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3 before 5,000 people. ArtsBeat Blog: Tanglewood Planning a Trip Down Memory Lane 2011-11-17T18:45:52Z

Brahms didn’t invent the practice of superimposing duplets and triplets in music: Beethoven explored it, especially in his late works. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Along with the tang of ragtime and tango in this 1918 score for small ensemble, Stravinsky began to experiment with neo-Classical forms, his attempt to remake earlier musical style, including those of Beethoven's era. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Classical — her favorite composer is Beethoven — "gets you in a really good mood." A crowded free day of music at Seattle Symphony 2011-09-19T18:14:21Z

“Only a very few people will ever read ‘Arcturus,’ ” Lindsay once said, “but as long as even two or three people will listen to Beethoven, two or three people will read it.” Review | ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ may have sold 596 copies in its first printing, but it deserves a wider audience 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Duport lost money, but made sure that Beethoven received his full fee. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

So he preceded the Beethoven with works by composers representing three generations of contemporary music in Quebec. Music Review: Montreal Symphony at La Maison Symphonique - Review 2011-09-08T22:00:33Z

In this vein, I don’t think Beethoven would like how so many modern-day digital hearing aids massage all kinds of processes into what the wearer hears. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

Between the Janacek and the Beethoven he will play Bernard Rands’s new Three Pieces, which he commissioned for the program. The Way to Carnegie Hall? Success 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

In under two minutes of conversation at B Bar, he moved seamlessly from Godard to a 1955 Droopy Dog cartoon to Beethoven’s productivity. This Time, Jim Jarmusch Is Kissing Vampires 2014-04-03T16:00:01Z

Meany Hall will be the Chiara's chamber as it plays both Beethoven and the world premiere of a work by Daniel Ott. The Week Ahead: Trombone Shorty, 'Rock of Ages' are Seattle arts highlights 2011-02-02T23:54:05Z

We find Henry James a reliable way to order your mind when everything becomes too much – the literary equivalent of Beethoven or Bach. Fiction prescription: why libraries make you happy 2013-02-08T18:36:01Z

If there is one piece that is most associated with Klemperer, it is Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, a work he returned to constantly. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

It alights on Flaubert and Beethoven as well as on the knotty contradictions of grief. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

A tiny pause in the first movement of Beethoven’s youthful Sonata No. 4 in E-Flat Major is a thunderstruck abyss. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Aware of my work on AI-generated art, he wanted to know if AI would be able to help fill in the blanks left by Beethoven. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Speed and intensity soar in a schizophrenic finale, leaving Beethoven far behind, revealing his powerful admirer. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

On Thursday at Alice Tully Hall, he paired the Nielsen with another symphonic testament to what that composer would call “the spirit of life”: Beethoven’s Fifth. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

This concerto could fill the slot on orchestra programs that typically goes to Mozart or Beethoven. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Through video recordings, including the Digital Concert Hall, I have also seen him conduct Berg’s “Lulu” and Strauss’s “Salome,” along with symphonies by Beethoven and, in a welcome surprise, Josef Suk. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

The campaign promotes November as “Beethoven Awareness Month” and urges everyone to “Obey Thoven.” Advertising: WQXR Calls on Beethoven to Help Lift Its Profile 2011-10-30T22:35:31Z

That frees the 33-year-old Cerrone from being sandwiched by Beethoven’s Opus 18, No. 1 in F Major, and Opus 59, No. 1, also in F Major. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, back at Lincoln Center, Mr. Gilbert is joined by the violinist ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER, who will play a Beethoven Romance for Violin and Orchestra and the premiere of Sebastian Currier’s “Time Machines.” The Week Ahead: May 29 ? June 4 2011-05-27T18:10:22Z

For the first time, this reliably classy organization offers a series of summer concerts at home in Alice Tully Hall, opening Wednesday with a program of works by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LVB - for Ludwig van Beethoven. ArtsBeat: Steinway Decides to Keep the Keys of Its Kingdom 2012-12-27T17:15:08Z

The film gains a point for suggesting that Metternich had his secret police spy on Beethoven, which is true. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

At the end of his creative life, Beethoven is so independent, so personal, and we see that he is really between two eras, Classicism and Romanticism. Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

He has emerged with new appreciation for the wonder in Beethoven’s music and the electricity of live performance. A Star Maestro, Fighting Brain Cancer, Finds Peace in Music 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Gustavo Dudamel begins the Los Angeles Philharmonic season in the fall with a Beethoven symphony cycle, and Simon Rattle will do the same with his Berlin Philharmonic. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Yet for all its genuine excitement, that Beethoven Ninth performance wasn't a great one. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Sooner or later, almost every composer grapples with Beethoven. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

And they were back there this month for a series of six concerts, again presented by the society, devoted to all 16 of Beethoven’s quartets performed in chronological order. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

I only regret that, just as he moved from “L’Alouette Lulu” into the classic, slowly unwinding first bars of Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata, I accidentally turned off my phone. Listening to Beethoven, While Walking the Dog and Dodging Cars 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, he plays the antepenultimate sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert; on Thursday, the penultimate. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

There are no anecdotes about Susan Sontag’s taste in Beethoven recordings or Oliver Sacks’s entertaining quirks. A Publishing Superstar Whose Memoir Shuns Glitz to Explore Private Torment 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The collection offers a rich variety of solo pieces, chamber works and concertos by Beethoven, Berio, Chopin, Mozart, Takemitsu, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and more — in probing, lucid, often exhilarating performances. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I think Beethoven was making a statement about his own power as a creative artist. Maybe that is part of why people recognize the strength in it.” Revolution No. 9: Seattle will hear Beethoven’s famed, still-needed work of inclusivity 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

Very often Beethoven’s materials and themes are banal, very simple, not very interesting, but he made huge artworks out of these small cells, small motifs. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

The Beethoven trio, full of bubbly good cheer and tuneful melodies, got a spirited and well-nuanced performance. Seattle Chamber Music Society is back with its first in-person, post-pandemic concert — and it was wonderful and weird 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z

If you miss her this summer, you can hear her next year in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach’s final performances as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra. Summer opera: Wine, women and Gassmann 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Allegro Con Brio from Symphony 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 – Beethoven Good tunes grab you right away, or get skipped. Take cover! It's the Swells iPod! 2010-06-24T11:58:00Z

The French music critic Paul Scudo, who detested both of them, called Berlioz and Wagner "enemy brothers sprung from Beethoven's demented old age". Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z

It recorded nearly all the piano trio repertory — Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns and others — mostly on the Philips label, through the boom years of LPs and into the digital age. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

Witt, who was born in 1770, the same year as Beethoven, was a German composer of considerable repute in his time. Review: American Classical Orchestra Takes on Friedrich Witt 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The opening, he said, is not something that could be easily mimicked by the human voice; it’s more about Beethoven creating space. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

He kicked the band into a rickety version his 1958 hit "Carol" before abruptly shifting to the lyrics of his 1956 hit "Roll Over Beethoven." Chuck Berry rocks again following health scare 2011-01-20T14:04:00Z

When another pianist, Igor Levit, streamed Beethoven sonatas from an empty studio, I marveled to a colleague that the Twitter wags who like to dismiss his artistry were simply crazy. When Opera Entered the Chat 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Dausgaard finally received a visa and returned to Benaroya Hall in Seattle in November to great fanfare, for a program of Beethoven and Brahms. Seattle Maestro Resigns by Email and Says He Felt ‘Not Safe’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kavakos and Mr. Pace are performing the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas during three concerts as part of Carnegie Hall’s Vienna: City of Dreams festival. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z

Time and again, one or the other of them would smile, at each other or at Beethoven, and I would realize that I was smiling along with them. Review | Vienna in Vienna: Chamber music at Wolf Trap 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

He has performed the five Beethoven concertos on two successive programs, and during the 2005-6 season he acknowledged the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s death by playing and conducting the 23 Mozart piano concertos. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

This kicked off a two-week "Immortal Beethoven" festival, which will include two full cycles of Beethoven's nine symphonies shared between the L.A. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

An orchestra subscriber, after all, hears Beethoven and Tchaikovsky over and over. Review | Does Indonesia matter to Western music? Here’s a 3-hour concert that proves it does. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

The festival closes Jan. 26 with works by Beethoven, Debussy, Wolf and Mendelssohn. A Symphony presence in Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2013 Winter Festival 2013-01-10T00:09:18Z

Regardless, his performances of four Beethoven sonatas, offered in chronological order, showed that his insights and instincts remain keen, his dexterity enviable. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Plays Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:38:17Z

Around 1817, the Royal Philharmonic Society in London commissioned Beethoven to write his Ninth and 10th symphonies. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Moments later, as he keeled over while Charlotte's daughter sails through the presto agitato section of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," I resented being proven correct. Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

They approached Beethoven very seriously, and their performances seem to have made a huge impact on the musical world. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

That is certainly noteworthy, but Berry was hardly the first to with rock with, or roll all over, Beethoven. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

From its ominous opening strains to its ramshackle final bars, “Absolute Jest,” scored for the unlikely combination of string quartet and orchestra, is a funhouse stocked with flashes of Beethoven. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

This piece represents a milestone for Beethoven, and the stature of Williams's performance suggested that he is approaching a similarly important transition. Llyr Williams 2010-07-19T21:31:00Z

In a new program, “Dutch Doubles,” which opened last week at the Het Muziektheater, he adroitly combines tutus, Mozart and Beethoven, as well as high-profile collaborations with modern artists and designers. In ‘Dutch Doubles,’ 4 Choreographers, Inspired by 4 Artists 2014-04-21T12:35:07Z

This month's two Pollini Project concerts are devoted to Beethoven and Schubert, and to each composer's last trilogy of sonatas. Maurizio Pollini ? review 2011-02-16T18:18:07Z

I thought that especially with Lenny’s last concert, the Beethoven Seventh. Playing for Lenny: Musicians Recall the ‘Magical’ Bernstein 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Like other composers of his generation, Schumann, born in 1810, lived under the shadow of Beethoven. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Having paid heed to the present day, in other words, they have earned the right to take a break and bask in, for example, a Beethoven cycle. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The even keel at which he had led the Brahms and Beethoven had vanished. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Milan Kundera has a thought experiment in The Curtain where he imagines a composer who could create works in exactly the style of Beethoven. Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats – review 2013-06-28T07:00:00Z

Mark Gotham, a computational music expert, led the effort to transcribe Beethoven's sketches and process his entire body of work so the AI could be properly trained. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

A training in the conventions of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart encourages a relatively limited view of the physical possibilities of one's hands at the keyboard, Michener argues. Xenakis: So what does a wiggly line sound like? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z

Despite superb playing and audio quality, Beethoven so Romantic won’t convince everybody. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Handel and Bach 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

On any given day, you may not be in the mood for George Eliot, Jane Austen, Beethoven, Bach or the Beatles. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Standing upright and looking in his element, he conducted both works from memory, a master musician among respectful colleagues who responded with lively, richly characterized Beethoven and glowing, serenely beautiful Bruckner. Music Review: Kurt Masur as a Philharmonic Guest Conductor 2010-05-13T20:30:00Z

As Stravinsky goes, this is unusually cheerful music, and both Mr. Serkin and the Philharmonic played it with the warmth and suppleness you expect in Beethoven but hear too rarely in performances of Stravinsky. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

When we started to experience for the first time the Beethoven instruments, and later on the Berlioz and Bizet instruments, it was always for the first time as a collective. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

To hear even this late Haydn symphony alongside this particular Beethoven work is to wonder anew at the distance the symphonic form traveled from 1791 to 1808. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z

The most substantial piece of "serious music" on the program was Beethoven's "Consecration of the House" overture. Morlot debuts with charisma, substance 2011-09-18T18:59:45Z

“I learned a lot about Beethoven, of course, but also about my language,” he said. Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Abbado did underline one connection, making much of Haydn’s little interruptions for solo turns, precursors all to the oboe cadenza Beethoven inserted out of the blue into the first-movement recapitulation of the Fifth. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z

Allowing Beethoven to exist in full, beyond his 250 Biggest Bangers, keeping every note and every silence intact — it feels like a way of liberating him. Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

"When I can sing anything of Beethoven, it's great," he says by phone from the Crescent City. Beethoven's Ninth closes out 2011 at SSO 2011-12-23T07:47:28Z

The taped music’s sections each reiterate one tiny figure from Beethoven’s score, while electronic sounds slide down and, later, up; it’s like watching a great painting being systematically defaced. Alvin Ailey Dancers Return Like Conquering Heroes 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Beethoven, it seems to me, is asking for declaimed narration. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

I can’t say I agree, but I can see what they consider groundbreaking about this restless, continuously morphing score, which Beethoven wrote on a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy II of Hungary. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival With Martin Fröst and Louis Langrée 2012-08-26T21:35:23Z

The three short transitional movements start where one Beethoven sonata ends and transform that cadence into something that leads to the opening music of the next sonata. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Disney threw out Stravinsky’s detailed scenario for “The Firebird” and basically did a remake of the 1940 sequence on Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. The National Symphony Orchestra performs ‘Fantasia’ at Wolf Trap

Three songs by Satie and five by Ravel root an evening that also includes Liszt, Beethoven and Barber’s “Hermit Songs.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

At one point, Bridgetower surprised Beethoven by imitating and then expanding on a short piano cadenza in the first movement. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

But I’m very happy to play now the late Brahms, and the last three sonatas of Beethoven. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Carlos Simon’s propulsive and galvanizing “Fate Now Conquers” nodded to Beethoven, but on his own brazen terms. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

All of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, to me, are one. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

But it is not without unease, as Beethoven modulates to an unexpected key and the first violin hesitatingly and tentatively questions. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Not at all,” Macdonald said before launching into a thought experiment about Beethoven. Jerry Seinfeld Calls Bill Cosby 'Biggest Comedian of All Time' 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Though the catalog of Beethoven concerto recordings is crowded, this new set is an exciting addition. Recordings: Mixing Urgency and Relaxation 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

Composers after Beethoven were powerfully influenced by this technique, and not just Brahms and Mahler in their symphonies. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

We know that Beethoven was himself very differentiated in tempos. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Between the Weber and the Beethoven, the cellist Gautier Capuçon was the soloist in a vital, singing account of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto. Music Review: Dresden Philharmonic Led by Rafael Fr?hbeck de Burgos at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-12T22:35:40Z

A celebrity duo in celebrity repertoire, as this violinist and pianist join forces for Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

According to the composer's biographer, George Grove, Beethoven was unable to hear the music, but stood next to the conductor during the performance to guide him as to the tempo. Plaque to mark Beethoven symphony 2013-08-08T17:32:15Z

Biss, a highly respected artist who is recording all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, plays three of them here, including two of the most exciting ones, the “Tempest” and the “Appassionata.” 9 Seattle-area classical music performances to go to this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Opens Saturday with works by Beethoven, Brahms, Enescu and Honegger, and continues through July 26. Cellist Arron: chamber music champion, Seattle chamber-fest fan 2013-06-19T23:07:26Z

Beethoven’s symphonies don’t really need more than a chronological presentation. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

“You play a Beethoven symphony, as Previn said, with the Used Car Dealers of Ohio Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven will still win in the end. That’s not the same for Korngold.” Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

They reprise that effort over five concerts here, in the first — and likely the more interesting — of two Beethoven cycles at Carnegie this season. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Tilson Thomas may have turned his back momentarily on Beethoven in a matinee program Sunday that celebrated his 20th anniversary season with the San Francisco Symphony. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

It is a little-known fact that Beethoven worked out his Symphony No. 2 on a primitive version of this instrument. Style Invitational: As the word turns — ‘discover’ new words in a grid 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

“For me the greatest music ever written will always be Beethoven’s music … but at the end of the day, I think I’ll find more entrances into it if I’m opening my canvas,” he says. Screams and silence: the new approach at Seattle Symphony 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

But even though this compositional virtuosity answers aspects of the music, Ms. Tharp’s choreography never fits Beethoven satisfyingly. Review: ‘Twyla Tharp and Three Dances’ Lends a Look of Sensuous Improvisation 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Beethoven thought in universal terms, but that didn't stop the Nazis from trying to pervert the composer's message and use these works to stir up popular feelings of German supremacy. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

He will perform Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, conducting from the keyboard. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

There is still nothing quite as spiritually transcendental as just a pure live performance of a Mahler symphony or a Beethoven symphony. Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

So this festival of seven orchestras, chosen not for their renown but for the adventurousness of their proposed programs, concluded with, of all things, the Beethoven Fifth. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z

Mozart was never far from Beethoven’s thoughts as he confronted the opera stage for the first time. A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Another Adams concern is his relation to classical music's past, his rethinking the likes of Ives, Beethoven, Handel and Takemitsu. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Almost two centuries after the composer's death, new biographies keep arriving, including Jan Swafford's 1,000-page "Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph," published this summer. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

If I read Lockington’s intention correctly, he looked at the symphony from above rather than attempt a priestly spiritual depiction of a composer’s inner workings of Beethoven. A spiritually yearning Beethoven Ninth in Pasadena 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Beethoven was persuaded by his publisher to replace the gritty, dissonant fugue, which understandably baffled listeners, with a more digestible finale. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z

Tommasini’s lifelong concertgoing experience also allows him to supply a wealth of examples about performers’ approaches to the music under discussion, such as hearing in awe Rudolf Serkin play Beethoven or Renata Tebaldi sing Desdemona. The Greatest Composers Ever 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The scintillating account of the feisty Beethoven sonata that opened the program was also especially enjoyable. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

True to Mr. Arron’s word, the Beethoven work opens with a prosaic theme, all the better to highlight the composer’s genius in the variations that follow. Music Review: Drawing on Fond Childhood Memories for a Pairing of Beethoven and Berio 2010-12-20T22:56:51Z

The Haydn Variations were a kind of test run for Brahms as he paved the way toward staking his claim as a symphonist in the Beethoven tradition. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in a deeply satisfying Brahms program 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Stephen Sondheim, fresh from college, studied the scores of Beethoven quartets, among other works, during private lessons with the 12-tone composer Milton Babbitt. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Yet as this movement — a theme and variations — unfolded, he brought a touch of wry wit to his cool playing to let us hear how cleverly Beethoven altered, transformed and varied that seemingly innocuous theme. 2010-02-15T05:55:00Z

The cadenzas, Lazić's own, are more Liszt than Beethoven, and sound fussy. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4; Sonatas No 14 (Op 27, No 2 'Moonlight') and 31 (Op 110) 2011-02-10T21:29:01Z

Unlike Salonen's Beethoven Unbound series of several seasons ago, there was no contemporary composition there for contrast. Salonen, Denk serve meat-and-potatoes Mozart, Beethoven 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Still, I’m going with Beethoven for the second slot. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Photograph: Graham de Lacy If I had to choose the music of only one composer it would be Bach, closely followed by Mozart, whose operas I love passionately, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Rameau; Brahms, Berlioz, Schumann….. Q&A: Rosemary Nalden 2013-05-10T13:14:51Z

One complication is that music history refers to the years from roughly 1750 to 1825 as the “classical” period, when Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven achieved their glory. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

"I think people look at it more or less with the same pride as Germans look at Beethoven's Ninth Symphony," he said. Two "Rites", no riot, expected for Stravinsky centenary 2013-05-29T11:54:22Z

This was early Beethoven: skillful, ebullient and beholden to Classical models; these players made it sound like solid gold. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Tully - Review 2011-10-19T22:40:11Z

Listen Closely The New York Philharmonic is devoting most of March to the Modern Beethoven, a festival with two potentially illuminating, if not particularly novel, goals. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

“What struck me was the happiness I felt in encountering gospel or church music I would then find that same feeling inside a Mendelssohn piece or a chord structure in Beethoven,” Tines said. At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

But as these two players show in this highly promising first installment of their Beethoven perusal, temperament is not measured in volume. Classical Playlist: Christiane Karg, Alan Feinberg and More 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Everything is on a smaller scale than Beethoven; he is not in search of the big effect, but something more graded and intimate. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

The printed program for Itzhak Perlman’s first New York recital appearance in seven years, on Wednesday, listed works by Vivaldi, Schumann, Beethoven and Ravel. Itzhak Perlman Returns for Solo Recital at Lincoln Center 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

You often include both Beethoven and Schumann in your concerts. Jonathan Biss on Schumann, Beethoven and why 'piano is daily bread' 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

For most of his life, Beethoven, now considered the towering giant of his age, was not the most successful or popular or recognized composer of his own neighborhood, let alone his era. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

The audience responded as they had all evening with delirious shouts of applause and Lill responded in turn with the slow movement of Beethoven’s “Pathetique” Sonata as encore. John Lill draws out all the moods, power of the piano 2014-05-01T17:50:27Z

Beethoven asks unanswerable questions, and both pianist and conductor were like actors in a Socratic dialogue, starting something that, we can now see, Adams has continued for our own time. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Tuesday’s program of crowd pleasers by, yes, Beethoven and Mozart featured inspired moments and awkward ones. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

Beethoven attempts to appropriate and transform operatic methods of his day, comic and epic, into a screed of unrealistic political and conjugal idealism. Beethoven's messy opera 'Fidelio' is in fine hands in San Francisco 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Using the same orchestration as Beethoven’s Ninth, minus its four vocal soloists, “Pachamama” is big, and deploys the emotive force of the “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s Requiem. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

That may well have affected these artists, who bring a combination of sublimity and pensiveness, wildness and spontaneity, to scores that span two decades of Beethoven’s career. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

In March, Beethoven’s brother Johann met with Duport, who was receptive but warned that the concert would need the permission of the Hofmusikgraf, the official in charge of music for the court theaters. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Beethoven didn’t do anything that extreme, but after Bridgetower made a rude comment about a woman Beethoven admired, the two men quarreled and Beethoven took back the dedication. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Listening to a humdrum rendition of a late Beethoven piano sonata is a less spiritual experience than hearing a lesser piece better rendered. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z

“Beethoven and Chopin are as good for the Asians as for the Europeans as for the Jews as for the gentiles,” he told The Forward in 2007. Walter Hautzig, Pianist Whose Talent Helped Him Flee Nazis, Dies at 95 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Now, thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven's vision will come to life. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Beethoven makes a couple of sly appearances, with one variation summoning his Op. Marc-André Hamelin Performs Variations on Paganini 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

And it is what drew Deaf West to this project; its members considered what Beethoven faced writing and conducting while dealing with a steady decline in his hearing. Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

“What we end up with doesn’t at first glance look like the wonderfully expressive sketches of Beethoven,” he said. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

This performance of Boulez's Dérive 2 was one of my highlights of this year, part of the cycle of Beethoven symphonies and Boulez's music he played with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Proms. Barenboim at 70: five YouTube clips 2012-11-15T14:54:36Z

He quotes firsthand accounts of Beethoven’s disheveled appearance and chaotic home life in an apartment with dirty linen in heaps, grime everywhere and broken coffee cups on tables amid stacks of manuscript paper. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

Or is Beethoven showing off his ability to fashion sublime music from rudimentary material? Classical Recordings: Beethoven and Haydn, Anew 2011-06-24T14:20:46Z

Beethoven is something of a calling card for Noseda, who gained his first burst of sustained international attention with a BBC Philharmonic recording of the symphony cycle that set records for downloads at the time. Review | A concert that lives up to its promise: Trifonov rules at NSO 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“There are many people in my field who have tried to tell me what I should and shouldn’t do with Mozart or Beethoven, even to this day,” he said. Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

When I was a teenager, I heard Leonard Bernstein conduct the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven’s epic, intrepid “Eroica” Symphony, followed by Stravinsky’s still-shocking “The Rite of Spring.” Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The strange 20-minute Choral Fantasy is a predecessor for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Starting a complete survey of the Beethoven quartets that spans six concerts in the space of two weeks, these three young Danes and their Norwegian cellist play the first three Op. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

All men, Beethoven incomparably drives in, are brothers. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

He explored Beethoven and Schubert along the way, with his gorgeous interpretations of four Schubert Impromptus the highlight of the program. Music Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:57:19Z

Germanic repertory like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven “needs much more maturity and growing as a person,” she said. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z

I enjoyed Mr. Kissin’s interpretation of the Haydn and Beethoven sonatas less. Music Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:57:19Z

Schumann was a somewhat different story, since he embraced that Beethoven symphonic imperative. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

The Vienna Philharmonic played towering works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler over four programs. Nine Concerts in Seven Days at the World’s Most Famous Concert Hall 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Berg’s “Seven Early Songs,” with the soprano Elina Garanca, and Elliott Carter’s “Three Illusions” are the filling in a symphonic sandwich; the bread is a pair of second symphonies, those of Beethoven and Schumann. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The 1937 Beethoven Ninth does not appear here, since only two to three minutes survive on acetate discs, but the one from the next season, on Aug. 8, 1938, also conducted by Koussevitzky, does. Tanglewood’s Archival Magic Still Casts a Spell 2012-06-28T15:03:28Z

Yes, Beethoven turned mystical in his late period. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing more innovative in this program than Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

I walked to Beethoven’s first grave, in what was then Währing cemetery, and where Schubert, who died soon afterward, was also buried. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The violinist and conductor Scott Yoo brings a group of musicians to a historic manor home in the Berkshires to record works by Beethoven in this latest entry of PBS’s “Great Performances” series. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Great Performances’ and ‘In the Heights’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Even if you’re not as illiberal as Nietzsche, you might be worried if Nietzsche’s right that certain kinds of traditional moral values are incompatible with the existence of people like Beethoven. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

Name the famous holiday chorus composed by Beethoven that will be performed by Seattle Symphony, Dec. 28-30. Happy Holidoodles! Test your smarts with our Northwest trivia and puzzles 2012-12-20T23:38:08Z

Sensitive accompaniments for soloists of the caliber of Rudolf Serkin and Zino Francescatti aside, there is little here of Ormandy’s muscular Beethoven, and his Mozart is limited to one, brilliantly effervescent symphony. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

He follows, in many places, Beethoven's example, but without the brashness. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

In Beethoven’s songs, clouds, breezes and music itself become conduits that traverse the space between two souls. Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

“I tried to have musical ideas to work with this classical sound environment, but then to explore them from different perspectives. There’s no influence from the style of Beethoven.” The next ‘Become Ocean’? Seattle Symphony to unveil new commissions 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

In her book “Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow,” the musicologist Deirdre Loughridge contrasts that passage with the drawn-out crescendo that links the end of the third movement with the finale in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The program began with Haydn's inventive String Quartet, Opus 20, No. 5, and it concluded with Beethoven's visionary String Quartet, Opus 131. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

On Saturday at 2 p.m. he conducts the same program but with Dvorak’s Wind Serenade instead of the Beethoven. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 28-Dec. 4 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The long-awaited concert delivered a powerful musical statement, with Beethoven’s noble “Egmont” Overture and the mighty Symphony No. 1 of Brahms. Review: After 20-month absence, Seattle Symphony music director back to conduct before a pumped-up crowd 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

“I wrote the song ‘Death and the Maiden,” Beethoven lied. Style Invitational Week 1081: It’s the stupidity, stupid — be a dumb-ask

You don’t get the laid-bare feeling of Schubert, Beethoven’s idealism, Liszt’s philosophical questing, or Schumann’s palpitating, specific love for his wife, Clara. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

The growing silence Beethoven experienced is hard for those who can hear to imagine: no change of atmosphere as you move from room to room, no rustle of paper; a dead world of aural nothingness. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Yet he had never played a complete Beethoven sonata cycle. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

From the outset, Beethoven decides to use the symphony as a vehicle for expressing his very strong convictions, urgently and publicly. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Like Beethoven and Bartók, Riley has used the medium to explore his deepest emotions. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

With his fellow Borromeo players, he now reads the late Beethoven quartets directly off a manuscript, which he can display — and mark up — on his screen. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

According to his now defunct website, Samuragochi was taught how to play the piano by his mother when he was four and began playing Beethoven and Bach when he was 10. 'Japanese Beethoven' admits fraud 2014-02-05T10:11:24Z

It’s one of those early, wonderful Beethoven pieces much more difficult than they seem. Virtuoso on the go: Itzhak Perlman to visit Seattle Feb. 19 2013-02-13T22:05:11Z

Still, that Simon Rattle, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, is presenting a Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall on five consecutive evenings, starting Tuesday, seems a little surprising. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Even so, Adams succeeded in out-weirding even Beethoven at his most audacious. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Its 1,115 pages offer his entertaining thoughts on politics, art, music, technology and literature, with cameos by Napoleon, Goya, Beethoven, Faraday, Mary Shelley and dozens of others. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

But why is one of the nation’s most adventurous orchestras ending its season with a three-week Beethoven festival? Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

On the recording you even include a track explicitly illustrating how Beethoven shared a style with his fellow composers. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

WQXR’s Beethoven Awareness Month campaign notwithstanding, it’s hard to think of another composer who could inspire such devotion among listeners not chiefly concerned with classical music. Music Review: Orchestre R?volutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-17T23:16:29Z

Mr. Dohnanyi’s oeuvre deserves far more credit, a demonstration of clear-minded conducting in everything from Mozart and Beethoven to Webern and Ives, far outstripping Szell’s efforts in Brahms, Schumann and Dvorak. The Cleveland Orchestra, America’s Finest, Restarts Recording 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a culmination of the tradition of the piano concerto — from Mozart through Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky — and its rare appearances are thrilling events for its partisans. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The national anthem of Rhodesia is based on the tune of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Beethoven could, and did, read other composers' work, and it would have come as vividly off the page for him as does reading a novel for others. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Occasionally in the Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, there was a sense of self-regard about a phrase, an exaggerated quality, as if it were being played within quotation marks. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z

The piano was for Alicia Keys, who used it to play Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” which the crowd had just learned the usually non-musical Bryant had learned to play for his wife’s wedding anniversary. Tears from a comic, a mom and a legend mark Bryant memorial 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The program concluded with a lithe, polished rendition of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C, which alludes to the 18th-century traditions of Mozart and Haydn while also breaking new ground. Music Review: West Side Chamber Orchestra?s Inaugural Concert - Review 2011-09-11T22:03:53Z

Beethoven is another master of the musical surprise. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

We don’t have originals, so we perform on copies of old German instruments from the time of Beethoven. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

More, though, it confirmed the penchant for nuance and depth that Mr. Greenberg had demonstrated in Beethoven. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z

But when he falls asleep, the bust of Beethoven on his piano seems to come to life, giving him and the audience musical insights. Spare Times for Children for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:26:13Z

He admitted that he had once, while a student, listened to a rehearsal of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy under the influence of a chemical substance. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

A more familiar model of the concert experience was represented on Thursday’s program by the “Emperor,” the last and grandest of Beethoven’s piano concertos. Seattle Symphony reaches another high with John Luther Adams’ searingly beautiful ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Beethoven could not be beaten, in this enduring view. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

His complete set of the Beethoven symphonies was much praised as, of course, were his recordings of the Gilbert and Sullivan classics. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z

Grade 10 fare includes much of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier”; sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven; and varied works by 19th- and 20th-century composers. Carnegie Unveils Music Education Program 2011-03-25T23:03:39Z

“It was how to make the opera be part of these two worlds — the two worlds of Beethoven,” he said. Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

But that would do an injustice to Edward Dusinberre’s memoir “Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet”. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In the Beethoven, she readily whipped up big orchestra excitement with audience-pleasing glee. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

He made Beethoven’s bold cadenza sound as up-to-date as Boulez’s. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The playing was so beautiful that the Beethoven overpowered the film. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

But this year the Beethoven story is being retold to a new generation. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

But in the Beethoven I found the string sound, especially the violins, lacking in depth, richness and presence. Music Review: Montreal Symphony at La Maison Symphonique - Review 2011-09-08T22:00:33Z

As I said, Mr. Honeck led a stirring performance of the Beethoven Seventh. Music Review: Manfred Honeck Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher 2013-01-05T00:58:01Z

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s cycle of Beethoven symphonies was supposed to come to Carnegie Hall in spring 2020. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Yet even when exploring new realms of structure and sound, Beethoven generated these late scores from small motifs. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The flurry of Beethoven confetti never quite manages to obscure the dearth of ideas and emotional substance. Review: A High-Energy St. Lawrence String Quartet at Zankel Hall 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

While even Beethoven's deafness is seen as ennobling, however, our vision of Schumann as spent, lifeless and inert only diminishes him. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z

So it’s the original — well, not the original Camper lineup — it’s the lineup that most people are familiar with Camper Van Beethoven back from the ’80s. Singer David Lowery keeps the debate over streaming music services in your ear 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Bach, Beethoven and the Beatles formed part of an eclectic programme based on music chosen by the show's many guests. Castaways attend BBC Discs Prom 2012-09-04T10:36:08Z

Placed high above the orchestra, the Society's bust of Beethoven – the composer from whom they commissioned the Ninth Symphony – oversaw the proceedings. Philharmonia/Sokhiev – review 2013-01-27T17:26:00Z

The event concluded his three-year survey of the Beethoven sonatas in New York. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

He recorded the complete symphonies of , Brahms and Beethoven and all the operas of Janacek. Charles Mackerras, a Wide-Ranging Conductor, Dies 2010-07-15T13:33:00Z

In response, Perlman joked about getting "many signs from Beethoven over the years" and calmed nerves. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

More than any other composer before him, Beethoven understood the pathos of the gap between idea and realisation, and the sense of strain put on the listener's imagination is essential here. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z

Themes in the Beethoven were handled as if they might be radioactive, handed off from player to player with such rapidity they might have been radioactive. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Burgess' tunes, informed by Beethoven as well as classic musicals like West Side Story, feature lyrics written in the Russian-influenced argot Burgess invented for his teenage anti-heroes. Clockwork Orange songs make debut 2012-06-29T05:50:34Z

Perhaps he will take greater risks when he plays the Beethoven and Dvorak concertos with the Philharmonic later in the season. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z

On Monday night, we had the German art-song recital, a program of Beethoven and Schubert that you could as easily have heard in the 1950s as today. Tenors show two facets of recital tradition 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Of course he couldn't have put in Mrs Beethoven, because there wasn't a Mrs Beethoven, unless Millican meant his mum … ladder … Jingling Johnny case! TV review: QI Jingle Bells Christmas edition 2012-12-22T08:00:03Z

What do the differences tell us about Beethoven scholarship? Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Under the soaring prow of a dynamically angled glass-and-steel structure drifting like an airship over a palatial brick firehouse, a chorus and orchestra performed the “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Building Zaha Hadid’s Bold Afterlife 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s the first in a three-concert series called “The Beethoven Project” in which they’ll explore all 10 of his violin sonatas. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z

As a pianist, Mr. Goldsmith was best known for his recordings of the Beethoven sonatas, Mr. Goode said. Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

With opposites generating so much positive energy, it was a shame that the program was made up of such similar music, with even the concerto showing Beethoven at his most Mozartean self. Review: New York String Orchestra Offers Youthful Energy and a Lush Sound 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Gilman pondered, reporting another landslide in 1929, when the Franck beat Beethoven’s Fifth, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth and Sixth, and Brahms’s First. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Walker, however, sees Beethoven’s two versions as more closely linked; the same soprano, he points out, sang the title role in 1805 and 1814. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

His recordings with the group, including the complete Beethoven symphonies, were widely praised. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

The same was true of the classics, especially Beethoven’s quartets. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

But there is a rich discography of Beethoven sonata surveys to choose from. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

The performance was by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, which is sharing the cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Rock audiences first heard the craggy voice of David Lowery in the band Camper Van Beethoven, urging listeners to “Take the Skinhead Bowling.” Singer David Lowery keeps the debate over streaming music services in your ear 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

This year’s free memorial program presents the violinist Mark Peskanov; the pianist and composer David Bottoms; the String Orchestra of Brooklyn; and others in works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven and more. A Sept. 11 Memorial at Bargemusic and a Juilliard Faculty Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Nelsons will lead eight orchestral programs, including a Beethoven opener on July 10 featuring the “Emperor” Piano Concerto, with Ax as soloist, and the Fifth Symphony. Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Here was an important venture that would honor the heritage that Beethoven epitomizes by bringing it into the present and empowering fresh voices. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The score begins with what had been a long piano improvisation by Beethoven that he later wrote out. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The rest of the program was standards and, after a rocky start with the Beethoven D Minor Op. Pianist David Rubinstein offers wide-ranging program 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

He'll be performing in all four concerts, including a special violin-piano recital Saturday, when he and pianist Andrew Armstrong join forces on works by Beethoven, Franck and Paganini. New notes in chamber group's Winter Festival 2012-01-30T22:33:04Z

When you play Beethoven, as on two of your most recent recordings, do you play on Viennese instruments from his time, or French ones? The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

His enthralling Beethoven still sounds as fresh as it did when it first came out, and remains arguably the finest such survey of the century so far. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Often, it means that someone is peddling a speculative reconstruction of fragmentary sketches, as happened in 2012, when the appearance of an alleged piano sonata by Beethoven prompted accusations of scholarly shenanigans. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Selected performances are being streamed and distributed online on Medici.tv; others will be recorded, including the Beethoven cycle at the end of this season. He was supposed to be finishing Julliard. Now this young trombonist is helping to remake the NSO. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

His conducting tended toward the more lush side of Beethoven interpretations — not nearly as ponderous as the Romanticized heft that dominated much of the 20th century, yet lacking the dashing lightness of historically informed performance. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

But he doesn’t want to present Beethoven in Seattle as just a lineup of symphonies, concertos and other major orchestral works. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Musically, these Beethoven performances serve at handbooks for all of us for finding the exhilaration of freedom through discipline, devotion and fine-tuning earth-shaking energy. Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Beethoven changed the point of what music was. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

Through telling details and stirring psychological narrative, he strove to reveal Beethoven's deep motivations for conjuring triumph from torment. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nelsons also plans to lead subscription concerts featuring works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, as well as works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. ArtsBeat: Andris Nelsons to Open Boston Symphony Season With a Flourish 2014-03-05T19:45:37Z

Instead, the most scintillating threesomes tend to be gatherings of star players who get together for the occasional bout of competitive Beethoven or Tchaikovsky as a kind of musical equivalent of poker. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

A November visit to Chicago for a Beethoven concerto with the Chicago Symphony included a private reading of the work for Mr. Rands. The Way to Carnegie Hall? Success 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z

After devoting their London appearances last season to Beethoven, the Takács Quartet's three Southbank recitals in the current term range much more widely. Tak?cs Quartet ? review 2011-01-26T18:51:43Z

But the choreographer D D Dorvillier is flipping that notion upside down in a work that transposes a late Beethoven string quartet into a dance for four. Dance: D D Dorvillier’s Beethoven Piece at the Kitchen 2012-09-23T04:57:45Z

In the first two movements of the Beethoven, he elicited clear detail from the woodwinds at the same time he emphasized the longest musical lines. BSO at Strathmore: A confident, open-hearted guest conductor 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Its songs were happy, funny bursts of glee, made for driving and youth, dissing Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, fussing about safety belts that wouldn’t budge. Chuck Berry at Ninety: Full Speed Ahead 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Beethoven's will did not mention the immortal beloved. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

Program managers say there is now a demand to hear not only Brahms and Beethoven but also Bruckner, Mahler, even Prokofiev. China’s Smaller Cities Struggle to Cultivate an Interest in Classical Music 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth approaches, bringing with it all kinds of opportunities to think about what the composer means for us today — or what, perhaps, he ought to mean. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Festivities at the new cultural landmark will unfold all year, like the ¡Viva Beethoven! series, March 19 to 23, when the highly regarded Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel will conduct. Places to Put Your Hands Together 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Zoltan Kocsis, a pianist and conductor who revamped the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and was internationally known for his incandescent renditions of Schubert, Beethoven and other composers, died on Sunday at his home in Budapest. Zoltan Kocsis, Pianist and Conductor, Dies at 64 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Yes, Beethoven’s concerto is one you might never go a season without hearing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann 2012-01-27T22:43:12Z

No one has to be Beethoven: he's been dead a fair amount of time now. Nigel Kennedy 2013-03-05T17:45:00Z

In between are the Classical and Romantic periods; “Traveler’s Prayer,” however inadvertently, flirts with that territory in its treatment of the strings, as wisely beautiful and spare as anything in Beethoven’s late quartets. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

A new San Francisco Symphony album features two of Adams’s Beethoven obsessions spaced nearly 30 years apart. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

One could hear every note — hear how Beethoven brought first one instrument to the fore, then the other. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z

Beethoven was a huge influence on me, in terms of rhythm, pacing, juggling architectural narrative. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

His recordings include the complete sonatas for cello and piano of Beethoven and Brahms. Paul Olefsky, a Cellist and Educator, Dies at 87 2013-06-07T03:43:28Z

As he performed Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, the fire alarm rang and terror took over the audience. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, speaking of staples, turns up on the May 14 concert, “The Evolution of the Symphony,” with Kent Nagano conducting the Montreal Symphony. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

The third movement of his Beethoven was particularly memorable. Review: Jaap van Zweden, Precise at the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The music of Beethoven will be inescapable this year, as orchestras around the world celebrate his 250th birthday. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

But it’s what Beethoven does with such elements throughout the work that is so extraordinary. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall, Part of a 19-City Tour 2014-03-20T23:37:04Z

Acclaimed for his Beethoven performances, Gardiner conducted these same two pieces at the 1996 Lincoln Center Festival. Under Gardiner's baton, Beethoven rocks 2012-11-18T18:25:12Z

His exciting and probing interpretations of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Variations and sonatas representing three compositional periods — Opus 10, No. 3; “Les Adieux”; and Opus 79 — can be enjoyed on this historical recording. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Mahler, Aaron Copland and More 2014-04-16T17:12:19Z

If the first two movements of the Beethoven Ninth performance had laid-back moments, Mr. Welser-Möst drew sublime, effortless and radiant playing from the orchestra for the great Adagio. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Plays the Ninth Symphony 2014-02-26T22:13:26Z

He took the best bits of Beethoven and the Beatles and James Brown. Prince’s genius, through the Revolution’s ears: “He took the best bits of Beethoven, the Beatles and James Brown” 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The music-director designate of the Seattle Symphony, Thomas Dausgaard — always a riveting maestro — makes his first appearance of this season on the podium with a program of two 19th-century giants, Schumann and Beethoven. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2018 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

In the back of a Humvee, flute in hand, Kohut was teaching students how to play Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” through his laptop. This teacher was called to protect the U.S. Capitol as a National Guard member. He now holds class from a Humvee. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Eight years ago, a young pianist made his New York debut with a brazen program of Beethoven’s final sonatas. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

At their house, Mills emerged from his office; in contrast to July’s measured composure, Mills seemed in constant motion, often running his hands through his Beethoven hair. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z

But if Thursday’s program was a missed opportunity, it offered a remarkable performance of the Beethoven concerto as its centerpiece. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The music ranges from Haydn to Berg by way of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, with generous helpings of French repertory. Music Festival on Arctic Archipelago in Norway 2010-06-25T19:03:00Z

Beethoven consciously strove to be great, even titanic, and he thought he was. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

Last time, it was all Beethoven and Debussy. Pianist Wosner shows patience, maturity and virtuosity 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Bach and Beethoven haunted new and recent works; the pianist Vikingur Olafsson treated Mozart, as he likes to say, as if the ink had just dried on the score. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

What Schnabel strove for is suggested by a comment Beethoven reportedly made, describing his compositional method. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The last performance, on April 9, is the same day as the Calder’s McIntosh premiere with the same Beethoven quartet at the Broad Stage. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

He is playing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and his sonatas for violin and keyboard, a Brahms chamber concert and the violin concertos of Berg, Beethoven and Dvorak. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

And — talk about a crowd pleaser — he ended with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Beethoven’s vision of music as a force capable of reconciling us to each other and to the world may today seem remote, but that renders it an ever more crucial ideal for which to strive.” Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

"The works of Beethoven and Schubert were once part of people's daily musical landscape, as surprising as that may seem today." Richard Robbins 2012-11-13T17:45:17Z

Opening with Beethoven," says music director Ludovic Morlot, "was very important to me, to express my gratitude at working in such a beautiful environment. Symphony opens season with Beethoven, Gershwin, Gulda 2011-08-31T20:58:04Z

But she has always competed with the best fiddlers of her time in her recordings of mainstream repertoire; her Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok concertos are fully competitive with anyone else’s. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

“I get as many complaints for more Higdon,” he said, “as I do for more Beethoven.” Robert Spano Will Leave the Atlanta Symphony After 20 Years 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Rather than perform something expected like Beethoven - they did what any good-natured Portlander would do - they opted for Spears and over time became a local sensation. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z

At the heart of his critique of morality is that he thinks creative geniuses like Beethoven, had they really taken morality seriously, wouldn’t have been creative geniuses. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

“A startling and hilarious, if discomfiting, compendium of published criticism about everyone from Beethoven to Copland,” Sondheim writes in “Look, I Made a Hat.” Decades in the Broadway biz, and still we want more of Stephen Sondheim

He remade his Beethoven and Brahms in majestic fashion, dwelled admiringly on Bruckner, and added to his earlier Mahler, not least with a touching Ninth and a vast First that astounded Leonard Bernstein. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Playing the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle is a feat Lill has performed before. John Lill to perform Beethoven, more at Benaroya April 30 2014-04-24T20:45:08Z

Once it did begin recording, on Teldec then EMI, the Berg covered large swaths of the quartet canon: two complete Beethoven sets, as well as works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

In a fine program of Beethoven, Bartok, Ravel and Waxman — difficult music, in a range of styles and impeccably rendered — Waarts showed an uncommon, preternatural sense of tonal color and lyrical beauty on the instrument. Teen violinist Stephen Waarts offers imaginative take on classics in local debut 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

This already happens all over in Mozart and Beethoven. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

There was a melancholy hint, if ever so slight, in this loving performance, that we are not yet at the point where we can trust Beethoven. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

The program also features Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture” and Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” with the impressive young pianist Conrad Tao as soloist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

On concert includes works by Jewish composers such as Mahler, banned from performance by the Nazis, as well as works by German composers such as Bach and Beethoven. Holocaust victims' 'Violins of Hope' to resound in Berlin Philharmonic 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Beethoven, however, was no fatalist but, rather, a spiritually transcendent discontent. Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

"Beethoven was doing charity concerts," says Myrlia Purcell, founder of LooktotheStars.org, a website that tracks celebrity charity events around the world. AP PHOTOS: The most charitable stars 2012-10-18T14:23:08Z

In “Wellington” that world is war: Beethoven uses loudness and sound design not to portray the violence of the battlefield, but to deliver it. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

He was a producer on nearly a dozen films, including “Ghostbusters II,” whose logo he updated to show a ghost holding up two fingers, as well as “Beethoven,” “Kindergarten Cop” and “Dave.” Michael Gross, Who Designed the ‘Ghostbusters’ Logo, Dies at 70 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

His new nightly show, like the old one, is called "Countdown," and it retains the signature musical riff from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Keith Olbermann returns to the air on Current TV 2011-06-21T02:50:09Z

Included in the Beethoven programs will be the world premiere of a short work by Augusta Read Thomas. Seattle Symphony opens season ? Gerard Schwarz's last 2010-09-01T22:25:00Z

Historically, composers have gone one of two ways: by revisiting the beginning, as in the Aria of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, or with the potential for further development, as in Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

When her white mother was at the wheel, Beethoven’s decisively Western melodies flowed through the speakers. Her opera helps a Pakistani rape survivor find a louder voice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Here he’ll play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1; the orchestra also performs two Schumann symphonies. Best bets for classical music in Seattle this fall 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

And yet Beethoven also touches mystical sublimity, as in the final minutes of the last sonata. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

He could be cruel: Contemporaries said he beat the young Beethoven to make him practice, shut him in the cellar, and came home drunk late at night and made him play. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

And not only through Beethoven; the second half of the programme is a performance of Shostakovich's confessional eighth quartet – agitated, difficult music for a child. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

Though the New York Philharmonic doesn’t play Beethoven’s Fifth every year, and sometimes the Metropolitan Opera gives “La Bohème” a breather, “Messiah” never takes a break. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

But the symphonies also continue the line of Beethoven and Mahler. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The program, conducted by Thomas Crawford, also includes Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 “Great,” Beethoven’s “Egmont” Overture and excerpts from Beethoven’s oratorio “Christ on the Mount of Olives.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The program — a Beethoven Concerto and a Mahler Symphony — was unusually conventional, at least for a venturesome conductor. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

For the weekend's Beethoven performances, the Bolívars scaled down their normally enormous size to fewer than 100, still slightly large for Beethoven, with double winds, but not unreasonable. Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

The late pieces, I hadn’t played any of them until I decided to do a Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms series in concert a few years ago. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

Though I’d studied piano for 12 years, my teacher thought Beethoven’s music was too “agitating” for someone with my “high-strung” temperament. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Kahane acknowledged how Beethoven’s Ninth lifted the Nazi spirits when they were down. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, Beethoven considered giving the premiere to Berlin, beyond the Habsburg Empire. Revolution No. 9: Seattle will hear Beethoven’s famed, still-needed work of inclusivity 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

Clyne’s complex, melodic score, with its echoes of several Beethoven string quartets and shimmers of sound, offers a similar juxtaposition of the known and unknown, fragments of history meeting a present-tense moment. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

"Buildings come and go, but the essential nature of the human spirit, which Beethoven so perfectly encapsulates in his famous symphony, remains constant," he added. Plaque to mark Beethoven symphony 2013-08-08T17:32:15Z

But I was able to fight my way past the selfie-takers and see part of the manuscript of the score in the big Beethoven exhibition at the Austrian National Library. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar will marshal, for five performances, the many talents and forces — including the Seattle Symphony Chorale and guest soloists — involved in performing Beethoven’s exhilarating last completed symphony. Seattle Symphony’s year-end plans: traditional and the new 2013-12-27T01:00:06Z

Later, the same evening players from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra provided a supplement to Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven and Boulez series, with chamber music by both composers. Proms 16 & 17: BBC Now/Wigglesworth; West-Eastern Divan Players – review 2012-07-27T11:11:44Z

Looking in the mirror, he sees, variously, “an angry Beethoven without deafness or music” and “nothing but the discarded pulp of my books.” Three Novels Take Readers Deep Inside the Writer’s Life 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

In Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” a woman disguises herself as a man to infiltrate the prison where her husband is being held on trumped-up political charges. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Beethoven was one of music’s most passionate and disruptive forces. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

“When you have a work that just sits on a program with a Beethoven symphony and an overture,” he said, “that makes it hard for the audience to understand why it’s even there.” Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

For a noted improviser like Beethoven, Mr. Kitchen said, “it was important to react to the page, but just as important was the incredible freedom to go where the ear leads you.” When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Traumatized, he nearly perished at 16, but he found the will to live in a haunting Beethoven sonata. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

The vast majority of the music the Philadelphia Orchestra is playing in its eight concerts at Carnegie Hall this season is by Beethoven. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

In Beethoven’s day many of them met with incomprehension and dismay, which the short-tempered composer had to learn to accommodate. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

But there was certainly nothing chilly about the music making or the repertory: a drama-free evening of genial, lyrical pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Kicks Off a Summer Series 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

And if you've heard a more alert, intelligent, conversational, intuitive and responsive accompaniment to a Beethoven concerto, in their performance of the Second Piano Concerto with Paul Lewis, I'll eat my hat. What makes a great conductor? Just watch Andris Nelsons 2010-07-30T16:19:00Z

Beethoven might seem an unlikely presence in such a program. Music in Review: BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC 2011-11-04T22:27:51Z

The chronology ranged from “Hockey” to the premieres of two 2014 works and touched on jazz, electronics, wild and woolly Modernist sounds, Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Stravinsky, elegy and horror. Review: John Zorn and Talea Ensemble Play at Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Shostakovich wrote it as World War II came to an end, and originally planned something huge and triumphant, akin to Beethoven’s full-chorus Ninth. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

And though the duo’s plush sonorities, legato line and sense of rhapsody — often at luxurious tempos — suggested music written several generations after Beethoven, the performances never tumbled into ham-handed overstatement. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, partners in sublime 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

His Beethoven is very much his own – neither irresistibly dynamic in the Carlos Kleiber mould, nor monumentally imposing like Klemperer, but somewhere in between. CBSO/Nelsons – review 2013-06-30T14:11:54Z

Having a recorded Beethoven sonata cycle to your credit at 24 is quite an accomplishment. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

And on Sunday afternoon the impressive Cassatt Quartet plays string quartets by Dvorak and Beethoven. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” part of his Ninth Symphony, is “a great tune to teach,” Thompson said. Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

But musically, balance was off in this frustratingly uneven performance of works by Dvorak, Beethoven and Franck. The Cassatt String Quartet at Bargemusic 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Is it worthy of comparison with the best of Beethoven? A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

“I mean, we saw it in school. We saw it in church choirs. We saw women conducting all the time, every day. But we didn’t see them conducting Brahms or Beethoven.” Perspective | If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Yet beyond the platitudes, the program did offer a profound musical juxtaposition, at least on paper: Adams’s memorialization through a fragmented and highly localized musical language and Beethoven’s ode to universal brotherhood. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

Like Beethoven in the late string quartets or piano sonatas, Shakespeare in “The Winter’s Tale” — play No. 36 out of 39, give or take — no longer observes the lane lines. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

Written for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the piece is a huge fantasy on themes from late Beethoven string quartets. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

With each of these works, written over 25 years, Beethoven marshaled thoughts, explored new realms and reannounced himself. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

He largely avoided Germany after the war, but the most performed composers in his first decade in Boston were Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

She renders each of Beethoven’s 33 transformations of the title theme with the fastidious precision she has brought to Schoenberg and Webern. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

There's no question that the big draw on the programme was not Boulez, but the West-Eastern Divan and Barenboim performing Beethoven. Beethoven + Boulez = Revelation 2012-07-26T16:31:00Z

After all, both Mozart and Beethoven wrote intensely political works, so there is nothing outlandish about the idea. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z

As she slides into decline, Katherine travels to Bonn to research why Beethoven devoted so many years to his famous Diabelli Variations  — the subject of her monograph and the operative metaphor behind Kaufman’s play. Actors Co-op's fine revival of Moisés Kaufman’s '33 Variations' 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In the two mid-cycle concerts I attended, the Philharmonia shone in Beethoven's Third and Fourth symphonies, the latter notably fresh and radical. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

“I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.” How to Win Big in the “Little” Categories at the Oscars 2014-02-28T16:48:58Z

The New York Philharmonic opened what was billed as an all-John Adams concert on Thursday with a bit of Beethoven. Review: John Adams Wrestles the Ghosts of His Musical Fathers 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Just days before arriving in New York, he had performed a critically acclaimed program with Orchestre Symphonique Saint-Étienne Loire in France, performing, both as soloist and conductor, Mozart’s Ninth and Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concertos. At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

But in the second act, the period set is stripped away, and a modern-dress chorus observes the drama, not joining in until after the triumphant ending is assured — a tempering of Beethoven’s idealism. Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

He will return to Chicago to close the orchestra season June 14-22 with programs of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Paganini and Bruckner's Sixth Symphony. Muti looks to make up for lost time with 2011-12 CSO season 2011-02-14T06:00:00Z

Schubert is often said to have lived and worked in the shadow of the man he adored and whose gale-force influence was unavoidable in early 19th-century Vienna: Beethoven. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

Power aplenty came through in Beethoven’s concert aria, “Ah! Perfido,” a strength that hid a beguiling fragility when shouts of vengeance turned to inward grief. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The Beethoven cycle suited Mr. Spence best: it was genial and conversational. Music Review: Toby Spence Sings Beethoven and Mahler at the Frick 2012-11-14T22:29:42Z

But the merciless tempos allow no time for appreciation of details, not even in the emotionally penetrating slow movement, the most despairing in Beethoven. Pianist Murray Perahia scales the Everest of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' in a momentous performance 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Yet grasping the “Missa,” which Beethoven considered his greatest work, is not always so easy. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

The Llandeilo festival was one of the first places to hail Williams's genius and, back on familiar territory, he was in relaxed form for a recital of middle-period Beethoven. Llyr Williams 2010-07-19T21:31:00Z

Well, Mozart, Beethoven and the gang are all well represented in the newly announced season. Seattle Symphony unveils 2012-13 season 2012-01-25T21:49:03Z

GPs tend to be confident that, within a few months, the middle ear clears, and hearing returns; and, where Beethoven had a primitive ear trumpet, audiologists can now offer sophisticated hearing aids. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Beethoven’s extremes — the consummate Classicism of the First, and the controlled excess of the Ninth — were absorbing but imperfect in this reading. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Dissatisfied with the unsuccessful premiere in 1805, which coincided with Napoleon’s occupation of Vienna, Beethoven revised “Fidelio” the following year, condensing three acts to two. Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Schubert, like Brahms, felt overwhelmed by the shadow of Beethoven. Mitsuko Uchida and Schubert Sonatas at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:08:03Z

It wasn’t Bach’s night, but there was enough rejoicing in Beethoven to go around for every land. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

But the most valuable revelation of this series was what a dynamic, idiosyncratic Beethoven conductor Mr. Fischer is. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Leads Beethoven Program at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-03-29T21:12:00Z

On Wednesday and Friday evenings he will conduct demanding programs of Sibelius and Beethoven at Avery Fisher Hall. Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z

At Buckingham Palace in 1948, its players banged out versions of Handel and Beethoven to Queen Victoria. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z

But it’s almost impossible to present a Beethoven cycle without giving the impression that classical music is stuck in the same old canon. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

It opens with a long piano solo, which Beethoven had originally improvised and which Denk made sound spontaneous, not reliving history but partaking of it. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The three-week festival is conducted by Alan Gilbert and includes world premieres of works which, tucked in between the concertos, serve as focal lenses for re-examining Beethoven. Contrasts Illuminate Beethoven in Philharmonic Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Apart from “An die ferne Geliebte,” Beethoven’s lieder are chronically overlooked next to his towering achievements in the symphony, sonata and string quartet. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

It was no big deal, they were assured, simply a queue for free tickets to the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra's Beethoven concert. In an orchestra's meet-and-mash of Kanye West and Beethoven, classical kicks it with a hip-hop beat 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Beethoven was the dominant composer, Schubert a teenage genius still finding his voice. Schade/Martineau ? review 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? Review | From the NSO, with love: Noseda and orchestra in Valentine’s Day programs 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Another contrast frames the entire program: as a counterpart to the late Beethoven Op. Jonathan Biss reflects on ‘late style’ in piano masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms and Kurtág 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

A daunting program of Beethoven, Debussy, Berg, Weill and, yes, Wagner, gave Ms. Melton, 33, plenty of opportunities to play to her considerable strengths. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Beethoven composed this monumental piece over four years, finishing it in 1823, a period that overlapped with his work on the Ninth Symphony. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:46:31Z

The demonic energy and heroic mien we associate with the Beethoven of legend was present and possessive. Music Review: Orchestre R?volutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-17T23:16:29Z

Making their voices heard, in practice, involved playing Ravel and Beethoven with energy and flair, and also offering a work by the violinist-composer Jessie Montgomery, “Strum,” played with even more engagement, if possible. Perspective | Building diversity into the mandate: How NOI trains for 21st-century orchestras 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

The choral parts were sung by the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, along with a few women from the Donald Brinegar Singers, the main chorus for Vaughan Williams and Beethoven. A spiritually yearning Beethoven Ninth in Pasadena 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

My nomination for that job was not due to any special expertise on Beethoven, but to my long experience with filling gaps. A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Maybe it’s a paradox that through the attempt to reconstruct Beethoven’s own ideal, imaginary orchestra, it brings his music closer into our present world. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The late, great Christopher Rouse was a Pulitzer and Grammy-winning composer, a lifelong Baltimorean, a proud Zeppelin fan, and a direct product of Beethoven. A critic’s suggestions for music to fill the dog days 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

That is certainly the case with Dudamel's evolving approach to Beethoven. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

He cites DID patients whose ability to hyperfocus allows them to play a piece by Beethoven after merely hearing it, and wonders if they might, in fact, represent untapped human potential. How 'Split' Marks a New Chapter for M. Night Shyamalan 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The Kiyochika exhibit is titled “Master of the Night,” and Vonsattel chose a suitably dark program with Beethoven at its heart. Pianist Gilles Vonsattel’s dark program speaks to ‘Master of the Night’ exhibit at the Freer

Achieving motivic coherence in his scores was not easy for Beethoven to pull off. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Genoese music lovers have been deprived of a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z

Highlights include a live album recording by the Celtic Social Club at Beethoven Piano’s Concert Space, as well as various events at M1-5 Lounge, including live musical performances. Spare Times for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

But there is a strong argument that his influence on subsequent composers such as Haydn and Beethoven – both of whom were avid collectors of his music – was in many respects greater than his father's. CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z

Angelenos will do the same this weekend, when Van Zweden returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic through the Fifth Symphonies of Beethoven and Shostakovich. L.A. meets the future conductor of the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Amid gasps from musicians and the audience, the library’s announcement said, sheet music was passed out, and the orchestra began the funeral march from Beethoven’s Third Symphony. Mister Rogers Song and Dr. Dre Added to National Recording Registry 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Beethoven's miracle was the melody, and, as happened more than once in the evening, a stunning performance became dependent on a precious theatrical effect. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

At the time Ms. Dorvillier chose Bach, but she soon started listening to Beethoven and particularly this string quartet. Dance: D D Dorvillier’s Beethoven Piece at the Kitchen 2012-09-23T04:57:45Z

This year is Beethoven’s 250th birthday, and listening to the composer’s struggle hidden within his music really rejuvenates my mind and drives me forward. Readers’ Ideas for Finding Community and Cheer at Home 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

"If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time." Musical comedy duo Igudesman & Joo unafraid to mash up Mozart, James Bond 2012-11-04T15:36:42Z

I have encountered people over the years who have been happily assured in the knowledge that they have “played Beethoven” because the theme of “Ode to Joy” figured in some early book of piano exercises. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Fisch’s Beethoven was a stormy, dramatic fellow, all firm verticals with very little emphasis on the delicate connective tissue of the horizontal melodies. Conductor Fisch, National Orchestral Institue excel at the emphatic 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

As in Beethoven’s later “Fidelio,” there is an arresting chorus of prisoners emerging for their daily hour of fresh air. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

It was a mark of the quality of this performance by the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet, in the penultimate concert of their Beethoven cycle, that the Grosse Fuge ending felt just right. Artemis Quartet - review 2011-01-23T18:18:53Z

I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Nicolas Cage: ‘Personal Issues Don’t Have a Place in Film Commentary’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

But as Mr. Sachs points out, even in the “non-text-based segments of the symphony’s finale Beethoven all but screams the word ‘MEANING!’ at us.” Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

It features eight shorts, each pairing compositions by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven and others with mind-bending visual representations. Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

In the opening of the Beethoven sonata, with its out-of-sync voices, Mr. Nasseri looked at his hands like a parent exasperated by fighting children. Music Review: Soheil Nasseri, Running the Gamut at Merkin Hall 2013-09-04T21:09:01Z

In his introduction, he quipped that Beethoven's idea of the country was not Bel-Air. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

He also described Beethoven's "Egmont" Overture as a blueprint for a community blazing a path from oppression into the future. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

His favourite three examples are Goethe, Beethoven and Nietzsche himself. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

The problem had been too much Beethoven and not enough Adams. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Two slight rarities, if any Beethoven is rare, join the Fourth Symphony on the program: the “Creature of Prometheus” and the Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Sunday’s concert offered an opportunity for Thomas to make more of an interpretive statement with the season-ending performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a Tanglewood tradition. In His Twilight, a Conductor Revisits Where His Career Dawned 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Beethoven memes, YouTube shares and heated debates over whether the Ninth Symphony was “a banger” when it “dropped.” Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

I am not taking the post in Chicago just to prove I can do Mozart, Beethoven, etc. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

Beethoven’s presence in “Grand Pianola Music” is more subtle, diluted with additional references. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

At its premiere in Vienna in 1824, Beethoven could hear neither the music nor the applause, and wept openly. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Not being consumed with Beethoven doesn’t really seem like an option to me. Jonathan Biss on Schumann, Beethoven and why 'piano is daily bread' 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

So that challenge is interesting in its own right, even if you wouldn’t want to side with Nietzsche, who’s ready to sacrifice the herd of humanity for the sake of a Goethe or a Beethoven. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

It’s the same with Mozart and Beethoven — they express two very different aspects of music. Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Bartók was a performing composer celebrated for his artistry at the keyboard — much like Beethoven in his earlier years. Chasing victory with Beethoven’s Fifth: Seattle Symphony wraps up its cycle 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Some of the most expressive playing unfolded just moments after the recital began in the opening movement of Beethoven’s forward-looking Piano Sonata No. 28. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Levine’s first extended absence came after a Beethoven Ninth performance in Boston almost exactly five years ago, when he tripped on the stage and landed on his right shoulder. Levine to Leave Boston Symphony 2011-03-02T23:29:59Z

After intermission — the Philharmonic’s first this season, after a run of shorter performances — Thomas led a compelling account of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

His insightful and technically formidable accounts of works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin made clear why, at 31, Mr. Blechacz is one of the major artists of his generation. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz in Exciting, if Blaring, Form 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

“The Mostly Mozart Festival this summer celebrates Beethoven,” a program note begins, and the juxtaposition of these two towering figures is the snoozy theme of the next month. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, adroit though it was, smacked a bit of routine in places. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Then Mr. Bey brought it all back to Beethoven, rapping over the somber Allegretto from the Seventh Symphony before launching into the exuberant hip-hop track “Casa Bey.” Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic Sets Out on Ambitious New Programs 2012-06-10T21:54:10Z

And he goes on to point out that this late quartet has seven movements instead of the customary five, and that Beethoven demanded that it be played attacca, that is without any pause between movements. A Late Quartet – review 2013-04-06T23:06:19Z

While the list of most-performed works of the Rattle era is still heavy with Brahms and Beethoven, 20th-century pieces by Stravinsky, Berg and Webern have also been among the most frequently heard works. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Bieito's take on Beethoven's only opera is certainly not designed to please everyone, and plenty of grumbling and even some booing could be heard in the house. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z

On Sunday a program of Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano can be heard at 4:30 p.m.; Spare Times for June 28-July 4 2013-06-27T22:14:14Z

But as the tempo of the slow movement's series of variations get slower, the mystical late Beethoven style unexpectedly begins to steal in. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Besides Dudamel's Beethoven symphony cycle, the Utah Symphony began one last month and the Minnesota Symphony launches a cycle on New Year's Eve. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Only those who intimately knew Beethoven's sketches for the 10th Symphony could determine when the AI-generated parts came in. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

If a Beethoven symphony was one of the loudest things its original audience would have heard all year, a Sciarrino piece is often barely audible. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

The Beethoven poems are informed by her lifelong immersion in music, starting from her youth, when her father, a psychoanalyst and cellist, conscripted her into a family ensemble; she played the viola. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

It is like listening to Mozart or Beethoven or Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington. 'The Beatles' bring all their loving back to Broadway 2013-07-25T12:37:43Z

The best of humanity … Daniel Barenboim conducts Beethoven's Choral Symphony at this year's Proms. Proms roundup 2012-08-01T16:14:54Z

“New Horizons in Music Appreciation” presents the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in the form of a sportscast. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Often it seems micromanaged, as if Beethoven were more concerned with shaping individual phrases than full movements. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival With Martin Fröst and Louis Langrée 2012-08-26T21:35:23Z

He used a classical-sized orchestra for the Mozart and Beethoven, and a smaller one, just 24 string players and harpsichord, for the Vivaldi. A night of masterful grace with violinist Itzhak Perlman 2012-02-23T17:32:54Z

With Europe’s armies on the march, Beethoven had an eventful journey. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

That’s understandable, even necessary, given the two centuries that separate us from Beethoven. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

The Triple Concerto, next-door neighbour to the Eroica in any chronological Beethoven list, and as lightweight and unassuming musically as the symphony is weighty and epic, preceded it here. CBSO/Nelsons – review 2012-12-14T17:00:03Z

Is it any wonder that the soundtrack of some of my moodiest college days was the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, with its sad and wintry string variations? 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Before the group engages with one of Beethoven’s rapturously admired late quartets, Op. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

He used to listen to his father's Beethoven CDs and taught himself the piano. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

Alex revels in his bloody actions, crooning "Singin' in the Rain" as he ferociously kicks a prone victim and blissfully listening to Beethoven after his violent deeds. McDowell's cricket gear inspired `Clockwork' thug 2011-05-19T16:21:11Z

“Roll over Beethoven/And tell Tchaikovsky the news.” Chuck Berry, Fiery and Flinty Rock ’n’ Roll Innovator 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, the excellent Brentano Quartet, which recently became quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music, plays works by Mozart, Bartok and Beethoven. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Tilson Thomas, who will devote all of June in San Francisco to a Beethoven marathon, made the hymn at the end of "Soldier's Tale" glow as if out of a late Beethoven quartet. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

After the foray into Finland, the recital ended, somewhat incongruously, with early Beethoven. Music Review: Linda Hedlund at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-11-22T23:59:47Z

Out of their hymns and dances come Beethoven and Bach. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

“The music is a music that Bach and Beethoven and all the greats would have loved and admired. It is so beautiful and it is also the soul of my country, Catalonia.” Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

But in 2006 he missed months of work and his first scheduled tour with the Boston Symphony because of a fall onstage after a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z

Sundays Live Members of the Capitol Ensemble perform piano trios by Beethoven. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Dec. 10-17: Michael Tilson Thomas and more 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

They told Beethoven He couldn’t compose while deaf. Style Invitational Week 1321: Pumping Prime — Amazon product reviews 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

"I love Beethoven, but I have a problem sitting through two hours of Beethoven. It's a bunch of people on stage in tuxedos going 'ssshhh.' I want everyone to clap and scream when they want." Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

“When we think about the brain that created Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or ‘Hamilton’ in New York now. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

For this faculty recital the program includes two middle-period quartets by Beethoven and Bartok’s Quartet No. 1. Classical Music Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The ensemble opened Carnegie Hall’s season last year, toured Europe last spring, and was to play the full Beethoven cycle at concerts in Taipei, Taiwan; Guangzhou, China; and Hong Kong on the Asian tour. Venezuela’s Government Cancels Another Gustavo Dudamel Tour 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

But Nézet-Séguin’s treatment of Beethoven as ahead of his time pays off in an illuminating Second, a poetically compelling Third and a delicate, patient Sixth. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

A concert in Beethoven’s day, often very long and shockingly unruly, bore little resemblance to what many people think of as the standard concert format today. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

"It is a keyboard concerto with flashing lights, an explosion which sets off a whole tradition that runs right through Beethoven and all the great Romantic things of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov." Century-bending works and wine at SSO this weekend 2011-10-27T20:18:05Z

He played a series of benefit concerts to pay for the Beethoven statue unveiled in 1845 in the town's main market square to mark the native son's 75th birthday. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Ohlsson, who played Beethoven’s famous “Emperor” Concerto on the tour, jokes about following the advice of legendary conductor Bruno Walter: “I smile — but I insist.” Pianist Garrick Ohlsson, a local favorite, is back in Seattle to open the President’s Piano Series 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

So it is with Sir Andras Schiff’s “The Last Sonatas,” a three-part exploration of the three final sonatas written by the four quintessential composers of the Classical era: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Pianist Schiff rises to challenge of weighty ‘Last Sonatas’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

A version of this review appears in print on March 6, 2014, on page C6 of the with the headline: Beethoven Sonatas for Two, With Violin and Piano Precisely Balanced . Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

Even Beethoven pre-sold concert tickets to raise funds for his new compositions. “Crowdfunding” brings science back to the masses 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z

Reviewing the recital, which included works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Bartok, The New York Times said that Ms. Ajemian “played with fine taste and fine perception.” Anahid Ajemian, Violinist and New-Music Champion, Dies at 92 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

On its own, the Beethoven sounds Romantic; alongside the Brahms, its Classicism is evident. Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z

After Beethoven’s death in 1827, friends discovered several items tucked away in a secret compartment of a desk drawer. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The RPS is a British musical association that forges links between musicians and audiences and has, over its more than 200-year history, commissioned many important works of music, including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. British composer Birtwistle gets award for Moth Requiem 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Over a 40-minute span, Beethoven fights gravity, in both senses of the word. Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

In this production it was less unsettling to see a statue of a diapered Beethoven dancing than it was to see Sachs evolve into a stern reactionary. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Chamber ensemble Byron Schenkman & Friends plays an evening of music by Beethoven and Schubert, written while the composers were suffering through crises. The agony and the ecstasy: an evening of gorgeous music by suffering composers 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Loughridge argues that in Beethoven’s time, the moment evoked the public entertainment of the phantasmagoria, a newly fashionable apparatus for dramatically manipulating shadows and light. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Titled “George Lewis and Beethoven,” the show is well worth a dedicated two-hour listen. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

But that approach tended not to spark in works that demand a precise ratcheting of harmonic tensions, as in an earthbound Beethoven’s Ninth from 1945-46 and a guileless Brahms’s First from 1950. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

What we think Beethoven actually wanted has changed dramatically over the course of your career, with new research and shifting tastes. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

With Mozart and Beethoven you knew where you were, but Schubert, neither completely classical nor openly Romantic, slithered elusively out of my grasp. Schubert: lieder of the pack 2011-03-10T22:43:00Z

The actors play Beethoven like they're embalming a corpse, approaching the music far more reverently and glumly than real musicians do. Christopher Walken's A Late Quartet is a beautiful sunset-minuet 2013-04-01T05:00:00Z

Paul Lewis, the Liverpudlian pianist renowned for his solo Beethoven and Schubert, is fastidious in his choice of recital partners. Review: Paul Lewis and Lisa Batiashvili, Recital Partners at Alice Tully Hall 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mozart subtly questioned aristocratic hierarchies; Beethoven’s sole opera is about the rescue of a political prisoner; Verdi stoked nationalistic fervor and explored the machinations of church and state. At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Each will handle four of the nine Beethoven symphonies separately, then join for Symphony No. 9, bringing to bear a combined force of about 300 musicians. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman, artist-in-residence with the orchestra this year, will be the soloist in three programs over three weeks, performing the five Beethoven piano concertos and his Triple Concerto. Classical & Opera Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was during one of those conversations recently that I asked a friend whether he was planning to see the pianist Mitsuko Uchida’s recital of late Beethoven sonatas at Carnegie Hall. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Listed as “conductor & musical tour guide,” Kahane began the evening with a taste of the “Fidelio” Overture, Beethoven’s opera and his most overtly political work. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

This time, though, there’s music, too, principally in the shape of Beethoven, who becomes a powerful ally in Nora Webster’s struggle for emancipation, consolation and forgiveness. What to Do This Weekend 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Asher Fisch's powerful and detailed conducting gave the production both propulsive excitement and detailed artistry — from the vivid overture to the joyous finale, which packs the punch of Beethoven's Ninth. A brilliant new voice gleams in Seattle Opera's 'Fidelio' 2012-10-15T00:36:04Z

In 2020, conductor and orchestra are performing and recording all nine Beethoven symphonies over 18 days, part of the worldwide commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Kennedy Center announces its 2019-20 classical music season 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

We often tend to reduce composers to cliches of their last years: Brahms is bearded; Haydn is grandfatherly; Beethoven is deaf. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z

Though repertory works, these scores are not weighted in the public imagination like Beethoven’s. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

This is Mozart at his most searching and personal, with a symphonic weight and lyrical profundity that anticipate Beethoven. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z

There was no danger of that on Thursday evening at Avery Fisher Hall during an installment of the New York Philharmonic’s Modern Beethoven festival, which began last week. Music Review: Philharmonic?s ?Modern Beethoven? at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-10T00:43:09Z

On Tuesday and Wednesday Mozart is no longer the main act, represented only in the Violin Concerto No. 4 in D with Joshua Bell as soloist in a program centered on Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

In less than a second, we can go from reading about Beethoven the composer to watching a clip about Beethoven the St. Bernard online. Is deep reading becoming a thing of the past? 2011-01-10T16:46:04Z

The imposing bronze Beethoven monument on the Münsterplatz, which the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt helped pay for, remains one of the city’s defining images. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

He also devoted three discs to music by Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia — a contemporary of Beethoven’s — along with works of Schumann, performed with Context on the Zephyr label. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z

Beethoven explored different styles and broke new ground; Mr. Lieberson, after studying and incorporating 12-tone techniques into his scores, rejected academic formulas for a more lyrical, engaging aesthetic. Music Review: Beethoven Institute at Mannes College the New School for Music 2013-06-02T22:12:04Z

The soloist in the Beethoven concerto, Jonathan Biss, was smooth and subtle when the orchestra returned after his first-movement cadenza, but strangely muted elsewhere. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z

But his sensitivity to texture and resonance is sure to illuminate the more traditional works on offer here: a prelude, ballade and polonaise by Chopin, Debussy’s “Estampes” suite and Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in December 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The piece — like the Beethoven sonata, a study in contrasting moods — evokes Schumann’s struggle to marry Clara Wieck over her father’s objections. Music Review: Intense Communication, via the Piano 2011-02-14T04:43:16Z

Chamber Music at the Barns continues on Jan. 11 with trios by Beethoven, Dohnanyi and Mozart. Review | Vienna in Vienna: Chamber music at Wolf Trap 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

And the Beethoven was Beethoven, a little overwrought in this reading but wonderful anyway. No quarter from the Spektral Quartet 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Witt, like Beethoven, was born in 1770 and emulated Haydn, an influence especially strong here in the first and third movements. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2013-06-07T22:48:08Z

Afterward, someone remarked that Beethoven had written a piece seemingly designed to make the listener as deaf as its composer. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

This was Beethoven to live with rather than dream by or laugh about, but Mr. Nelsons’s unapologetic refusal to be trendy was endearing. Andris Nelsons Brings Old World Flavor to Boston Symphony 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

In another scene, they all flash back to their own births while listening to Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto No. 5. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Here is the towering Beethoven, the composer as revolutionary, striding across the pages of these scores — brash, adventurous and ingenious. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Denk did more with the latter work, in which Beethoven dissects one of his favorite melodies, drawing attention to the hammered repeated-note motif in the second phrase, for example, in its various permutations. In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

A Beethoven sonata that ends in a suite of variations led into the premiere of a new set of variations by Fred Hersch. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

“There’s a reason why Beethoven’s Ninth has survived 200 years,” says Yoo. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

This 2008 piece explores the aural effects of Beethoven's tinnitus, with dry, scratchy buzzing sounds from rosin-free violin bows which suggest a quill scratching on paper. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

He had time to compose a violin concerto, immerse himself in scores by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, and go for long walks on a golf course near his home in Los Angeles. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

And the Beethoven is there because some presenters think he is easier to promote than Khachaturian? A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

And, because our son is a musician, we felt there was no better place to visit than Vienna and Salzburg because of their historical connections to Mozart, Beethoven and other classical composers. Inspired by the Billy Joel tune, a family heads to Vienna 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

"The only other piece we could have a conference like this about," he said, is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. ArtsBeat: 'The Rite of Spring' Still Grist for Discussion 2012-10-28T19:54:43Z

The British poet Ruth Padel tries to fathom this mystery, and other long-mythologized strands of the composer’s life story, in “Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life,” recently published in the United States. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Spot, with a top speed of three mph, will never be confused with Clifford, Beethoven or Wasabi, the bewildering puddle of fur that conquered this year’s Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Due to the leg injury he incurred doing a Beethoven impression last week, Bill Nye was forced to dance as a robot to “Get Lucky” in a Tron-inspired set. Dancing with the Stars Watch: All Hail, Hollywood Night 2013-10-01T03:17:33Z

It’s a rare concert when a major work of Beethoven gets upstaged. Seattle Symphony reaches another high with John Luther Adams’ searingly beautiful ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The remaining program, which featured Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” as well as the Beethoven, offered plenty of evidence of the youth symphony’s rich sound and melodic astuteness. Review: New York Youth Symphony and the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields Perform 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

But if it does not enter the annals of great Beethoven Fifths, that simply does not matter. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

"These orchestras need to hire me to produce a Beethoven concert," said Tallarico, who debuted "Video Games Live" in 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Badura-Skoda’s specialty was the Viennese classics—Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

According to most accounts Beethoven initially declined but was later intrigued by Diabelli’s waltz. Music Review: Beth Levin Plays Beethoven Variations at Bargemusic 2010-07-04T21:51:00Z

One suspects that an Orpheus Beethoven Ninth may — and perhaps should — remain forever just a dream. Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-14T20:36:41Z

Serious Soviet music brought together Tchaikovsky’s lugubrious Romanticism, Pioneer marches, a little Beethoven, folk song strains, tunelets. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

At that late point in his life, Mr. Gilbert said, everything Beethoven wrote was on a “highly exalted spiritual plane.” Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

But however hard wrought, Beethoven’s works are so audacious and indestructible that they survive even poor performances. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

The most interesting and innovative Beethoven recording since these forces set down the Fifth and Seventh, this intense “Eroica” nods in the direction of tradition but sounds completely new, rethought from the ground up. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

“Too early. Mozart’s for eight in the evening,” he says, adding, “Beethoven is for midnight.” Jean-Luc Godard Is, Quietly, a Probing Musical Mind 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

It will be a silver lining to the decline of music education if taste now forms from audiences’ curiosity rather than by learning in school that Beethoven is good. Orchestras in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo Stay Nimble 2014-04-30T12:32:12Z

Sure enough the China Philharmonic brought Beethoven to Disney Hall, along with Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony and a work by Chinese composer Qigang Chen. A diplomatic China Philharmonic plays Disney Hall 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

I have rarely been more clearly yet delicately aware of Beethoven’s most visionary passages here: the orchestra mistily reconstituting itself near the end of the first movement, the amorphous clouds of harmonies in the finale. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

For generations, American audiences have been taught that Beethoven is greater than American works. The democracy of American music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

His parents met in a Gilbert and Sullivan production, but his father, a brooding man who played Beethoven in his spare time, left the family and moved to Vienna. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Jacob Lateiner, a concert pianist renowned for his interpretations both of Beethoven and of 20th-century music, died on Sunday in Manhattan. Jacob Lateiner, Pianist and Scholar, Dies at 82 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z

In Beethoven’s Sonata No 1 in D Major from Opus 12, Perlman’s tone was sweet, silvery, but never lush, his vibrato present but unobtrusive. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z

Its powerfully spiritual subject matter may have something to do with its relative unfamiliarity to modern concertgoers, who may be inclined to worship Beethoven as much as the Almighty. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

I am a bit drunk, texting and eating pepperoni pizza – but this immense work by Beethoven remains undimmed. Arts in lockdown: I curated my own three-day online festival. Now it’s over, and I am wrecked 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Cycles of quartets by Beethoven, Bartók, Shostakovich are now core repertoire. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

I’m trying to transpose it, so that we understand better what Beethoven meant. Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

If our attention flags during a Beethoven symphony, we are not failing the task of listening. Music Review: ?Launching the Percussion Revolution? at Juilliard 2012-02-01T00:03:35Z

The Philharmonic has high hopes for Dudamel, 42, but it probably has not hired him first and foremost to commit agenda-setting Beethoven and Brahms to disc, though he will make records anyway. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

For generations Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with its choral finale espousing universal brotherhood, has been the work of choice to solemnize a peace treaty, open a new concert hall or foster communal bonding. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

“Composers Undiscovered” showcases lesser-known works by prominent composers, like Beethoven’s Scottish songs. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

It often seems that appointments of music directors to major orchestras come down to assessments of how excitingly a contender conducts Beethoven, as if that were by far the most important part of the job. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

A deep musical thinker — someone once said that to her the ocean was only knee-deep — she sought the spiritual core in the weightiest works of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

At 18 he won the Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition, and at 25 he won the Kossuth Prize, awarded by Hungary’s government for outstanding contributions to Hungarian science or culture. Zoltan Kocsis, Pianist and Conductor, Dies at 64 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Paul Lewis Understated yet alert to drama, this British pianist didn’t wallow in sentiment while playing Beethoven’s final three sonatas in November at Alice Tully Hall. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Lincoln Center said that Mr. Lewis planned to return to the White Light Festival on Nov. 14 for a scheduled recital of late Beethoven piano sonatas. Pianist Withdraws from Concerts, Citing Surgery 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Ironically, sound therapies based on Beethoven and Mozart's music are now used to alleviate the condition, treating like with like. My Bloody Valentine: m b v – review 2013-02-10T00:05:03Z

Haydn was still alive and writing when Beethoven wrote them and they are very Haydnesque, on steroids almost, seemingly determined to outdo the master. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

And there’s more: in addition to Saturday’s repeat performance, Zhang and the Symphony will reprise the overture and the Beethoven symphony at 7 p.m. Hilary Hahn brings youthful listeners to their feet in Seattle 2013-04-26T19:27:18Z

In March he's due to conduct Aho, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, while here the programme consisted of Beethoven and Bruckner. BBC Philharmonic/Mena - review 2010-10-17T21:46:00Z

She played the Beethoven cycle in 2010 over eight consecutive days in Paris, and last year she recorded the sonatas for her debut release on EMI Classics. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

Historians have not been able to determine whether Beethoven knew Gaveau’s music. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Beethoven was one of the biggest admirers of Clementi, whose compositional achievements included an expressive use of legato. Music Review: Olivier Cavé Plays Bach and Others at the Frick Collection 2014-03-17T22:13:54Z

Mr. Tilson Thomas, Mr. Darrah and their team, including the video designer Finn Ross, don’t impose a narrative on the work, but neither do they produce evocative images or capture Beethoven’s quicksilver emotional shifts. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Is it all of Beethoven, or just one string quartet? 2010-02-17T15:05:00Z

The danger of playing the Beethoven sonatas on modern instruments is the tendency of the more powerful piano to overwhelm the violin. Review | Piano-violin duo brings mature eloquence to Phillips Collection 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.” Tarantino’s “ghetto” gaffe: His Golden Globes Morricone speech does not impress 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

I wonder: Is it an exaggeration to say that composers after Beethoven, the vast majority of them hearing, were forever changed by a deaf aesthetic? I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven" starts out as a novelty but quickly becomes something more. How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

The intricate manipulations Beethoven gives his themes in the symphony’s finale are nothing compared to the gnarly gyrations of the piano variations, which Mr. Denk, 48, dispatched with a winning combination of pluck and intensity. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Promising, too, was the Beethoven Seventh on Friday that allayed doubts about whether this conductor is ready to record a promised cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic. After Withdrawing From Bayreuth, This Conductor’s Silence Grows Louder 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

He tallied its appearances in the Schubert and Beethoven songs, as a noun and a verb, and noted that it figures in the finales of both “An die ferne Geliebte” and “Schwanengesang.” Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

But it's increasingly clear he is a much more versatile musician than that, and in particular a pretty exceptional Beethoven interpreter. Bournemouth SO/Karabits/Lewis – review 2013-04-11T17:21:53Z

One is to explore the connections among Beethoven’s symphonies and three worthy but less traveled 20th-century works. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

The spotlight shone brightly after intermission: There is only one Beethoven, and he only created one Archduke. Jeremy Denk shares spotlight at Seattle chamber-music fest 2011-07-21T19:35:04Z

He comes to Carnegie Hall for a Beethoven program of “Six Variations on an Original Theme” and three sonatas, including No. 23, the “Appassionata.” | Classical: Left Coast, Meet Right Coast 2014-03-15T16:00:09Z

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti took the rare step to address the audience before a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Orchestra Hall on Thursday night. Munich may fire Russian conductor Gergiev over Ukraine 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

There are also lists for composers, including the usual suspects — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven — as well as contemporary artists like Kaija Saariaho and Steve Reich. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

The ensemble was at its most muscular and sumptuous in the Beethoven. Music Review: Juilliard String Quartet, With Violinist Joseph Lin - Review 2011-11-29T22:53:52Z

But someone tends to get credit for being the first, and in the case of the song cycle, that person is Beethoven. A Brief History of the Song Cycle in Two Recitals 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Beethoven is, of course, not about contentment but insurrection and transformation. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Since then he has found ways to adapt Bach, Beethoven, Aaron Copland and Thelonious Monk to the accordion, and makes a living teaching music and playing on advertising jingles. Showing Off the Accordion’s Hip Side 2013-06-26T21:57:23Z

Ebène Quartet of Paris plays the music of Mozart, Debussy and Beethoven. Calendar: Events in Westchester 2010-08-06T22:58:00Z

There is a shared youthful exuberance in the Mahler symphony and the Beethoven concerto, the great composers exulting in their blossoming ingenuity. A hero's welcome for Esa-Pekka Salonen at Disney Hall 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

The most popular destination, however, might be Vienna, for Beethoven’s Akademie concert of 1808 — one of the most important nights of his life, and the stuff of legend. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

When the piano was unveiled in Berlin in March it was played by Dudana Mazmanishvili, who performed pieces by Chopin and Beethoven. Ivory keys on Bechstein Louis XV piano dismay environmentalists 2013-06-07T17:22:53Z

It opens with the American premiere of Hannah Kendall’s “Kanashibari,” then the formidable pianist Steven Osborne is the soloist in Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 before Ravel’s colorful, enchanting “Mother Goose” Suite. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

There are evocations galore and many direct quotes from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and more. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” became an “Ode to Freedom” when Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Berlin just weeks after the fall of the wall there in 1989. Watch 5 Moments When Classical Music Met Politics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

But the piece proved effective as a warm-up for Schumann and Brahms, who were devotees of Beethoven. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z

The most banal answer is that Beethoven is box office. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Asked to pick a favorite page from the program, he went for the Beethoven, choosing the transition from the penultimate variation, a blistering fugue, to the concluding minuet. Beethoven’s Insane Beauty, According to a Star Pianist 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Carnegie Hall’s last full presentation of Beethoven’s symphonies — Simon Rattle leading the Berlin Philharmonic five years ago — made a case for why this stale cycle should be retired. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Last fall, in one of a slew of whither-the-Phil think pieces that have filled the New York musical press in the past year, I took a skeptical view of his recent account of Beethoven’s Fifth. The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

He recalls his father listening to Beethoven sonatas — his father, who in his later years lived without any music at all. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

In some ways Beethoven looks back to the early heritage of intricately contrapuntal choral music. Music Review: John Oliver Leads the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-08T22:44:17Z

In 1948, he made his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in a program of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Berg and Prokofieff. Jacob Lateiner, Pianist and Scholar, Dies at 82 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z

But when it came to the 10th Symphony, Beethoven didn't leave much behind, other than some musical notes and a handful of ideas he had jotted down. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t until shortly after Beethoven’s death that his symphonies were really scrupulously prepared for performance. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Never would Beethoven have imagined that the soft, passionate melody made up of parts — as all sonatas are — would come to mind when thinking of long-unrequited love between men in the Oscar-nominated film, “Moonlight.” Moonlight sonata: Will the film’s Oscar nod make Hollywood legitimize gay relationships of color? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

He started small — he recalled singing the role of the second prisoner in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” — but soon graduated to big roles, including Papageno in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z

Lewis, a star former pupil of the now-retired Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, has, like his great mentor, been widely praised for his performances and recordings of the Beethoven sonatas and concertos. Pianist Lewis launches cycle of Schubert's late keyboard works 2011-02-09T18:28:15Z

Nagano and the orchestra continued that careful, deeply intentional sculpting of rhythm, articulation and dynamics in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

It acted, surprisingly, as a bridge between the light, maverick textures of Beethoven's First and the more radical ambitions of the Second. Proms 9, 10, 12 ,13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Cadogan Hall Proms; Falstaff – review 2012-07-28T23:06:25Z

There are also some piano pieces by Wagner, including a youthful 26-minute fantasy, a fascinating, if not great, work: you hear the 19-year-old Wagner beholden both to Beethoven and bel canto opera. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

While Napoleon didn’t need Beethoven to secure his place in history, this snub reduced Bridgetower to near obscurity. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Her Royal Festival Hall recital to open the International Piano series focused on Beethoven, opening with the Sonata in E minor Op 90, Chopin and Schumann. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

And next fall the Berlin Philharmonic and Mr. Rattle will play a cycle of Beethoven symphonies at Carnegie Hall, which is designating him a featured artist for two seasons. Simon Rattle to Return to His Roots, Taking Over the London Symphony 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Not all of the music is by P. D. Q.; some is by composers actually competent, like Beethoven. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, will fall silent in the ghetto forever,” a captive resident wrote in 1944. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z

And on Saturday and Sunday, Mr. Peskanov will round out his complete survey of the Beethoven violin sonatas, with the pianist Nina Kogan. Classical Music Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Beethoven had quite a lot of romances in his life. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

Under Szell’s baton, an orchestra was a highly polished, precision machine, and in music by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák and Wagner, he was untouchable. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The Violin Concerto and the "Pastoral," written two years apart, are Beethoven a bit more mellow. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

But Beethoven took the technique to a new level of sophistication. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

He discussed its appearance in the Thomas Mann book “Doctor Faustus” and put it in context with other late Beethoven works, such as the “Grosse Fuge.” Review: Lars Vogt Presents Late-Career Beethoven and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

The conductor will be transitioning from a week of Beethoven to Latin American music in which he will be joined by Ruben Blades at the Bowl, and that is another way of saying anything goes.  Dudamel conducts 'Cav' and 'Pag' at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Beethoven preferred musical ideas of almost unusable simplicity, things that seem pre-­musical, or ur-musical, like chords, or scales — not music, but the stuff music is made of. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The Brahms Second Symphony, on Monday, and the Beethoven Seventh Symphony, on Sunday, demonstrated what worked and what did not. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z

Above all, musicians and Dudamel alike allowed Beethoven's genius to speak for itself, with ferocious vitality. Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Dudamel; OperaUpClose ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:50Z

Let's say you're playing a Beethoven piece in a room where the same piece was played 100 years ago. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

Part of the appeal of his music is a sense of sweep that harks back to the symphonies of Beethoven, whose orchestral writing represented a kind of public oratory. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

And Osborne, who here launched a Beethoven cycle with the BBCSSO, underlined his stature as a musician of profound individuality and invention. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2012-10-28T14:00:38Z

She ended with a rigorous account of the Beethoven work, the last of the composer’s 32 sonatas. Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z

We want to identify with the person behind the music, and with Beethoven and Mozart this is less complicated. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

It opens in heaven, with Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven playing Scrabble and squabbling like sitcom characters. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

On Thursday night, the Los Angeles Philharmonic played Beethoven at the Bowl, as it does every summer. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

In “Meeting Mozart,” she describes the 16-year-old Beethoven after a three-week winter journey to Vienna, “burning” to be taught by the master. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Early in the fall at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gustavo Dudamel ended his cycle of Beethoven symphonies with a Ninth of tremendous intensity meant to remind players and listeners of the priorities of citizenship. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

But the Beethoven symphonic imperative that hung over and intimidated his fellow composers meant nothing to Chopin. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

On Monday evening, that blend produced a mostly successful concert by combining two well-known trios — a Beethoven and a Mozart — with the world premiere of “Sanctuary,” a septet in four movements by Lawrence Dillon. Chamber music fest continues with hits and near-misses 2013-07-09T16:54:45Z

Mostly, though, the endless flood of Bach, Beethoven and Mahler cycles let loose by our major soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras stifles the genuinely creative thinking that our art needs. Review: Attacca Quartet Continues Its Haydn Project 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Then and now, her playing was persuasive; Beethoven’s music can withstand, even demand, both approaches. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Beethoven, who essentially sponsored the concert, stood to make or lose a great deal of money. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

It relies almost exclusively on archive footage and clips from Hollywood movies – there are no talking heads to slow the pace – plus a splendid soundtrack, with lashings of symphonic Beethoven at key moments. Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z

And it might tell you that the concerto’s nickname, “Emperor,” was assigned not by the staunchly republican Beethoven, but by his publisher. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

True to form, Beethoven reclaims this unlikely march genre and turns it into something stirring and daring, almost noble. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z

The first of the quartet’s two movements is fueled largely by a mere seven notes of Beethoven — a nervous, tapping motif that under Adams’s microscope squirms and spins off in endless aggressive, pulsating patterns. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Beethoven intended fairly lean orchestras to play all but the last of his symphonies; and in the fifth the key is in the consistency of the attack and momentum. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela ? review 2010-10-13T08:12:00Z

Great composers, including Handel, Beethoven and Mozart, wrote for it. The enchanting history of Ben Franklin’s glass armonica — ‘the first musical instrument ever invented by an American’ 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

And in grim times, we often turn to Beethoven. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

“I don’t plan on just throwing out the Beethoven symphonies, the Schumann symphonies or Mozart,” he added. Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

If Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are inane in death, that is because they are dead. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

That some distant genetic thread links them to the Beethoven string quartets? Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

They may be surprised to hear more detail and more of the content of what’s in Beethoven’s score, as the different strands of the instrumental lines emerge with an enhanced clarity. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It is now 215 years since a 30-year-old Beethoven made a splash in Vienna with the premiere of his First Symphony. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The spirit of cooperation is a signature of This is Beethoven. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Small Beethoven statues are everywhere, even amid the hosiery in a lingerie shop window. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

This second season will advance from that Baroque batch into the Classical period via Haydn, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

If his Beethoven has been a little less prominent, that is only because its virtues are not of the flashy or radical kind. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The Beethoven, however, brought with it a few inequalities. Chaushian/Wass – review 2013-01-09T18:27:18Z

I didn’t spot Mr. Finckel in the audience, but watching the quartet tear into Beethoven with such boyish exuberance, I was pretty sure he would have looked on with a wide, satisfied grin. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z

But then, in Lewis's music room, underneath precious facsimile opies of autograph manuscripts of Schubert sonatas and Beethoven concertos, I spy a Lewis original, one of his own handwritten pieces. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z

Bonn’s historic center is its own Beethoven exhibit. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The job title is music director, not exalted interpreter of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler. The New York Philharmonic and the Search for a New Music Director 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Most moving, perhaps, is “Mr. Botibol,” the saga of a lifelong failure who finds unexpected fulfillment and connection in pretending to conduct the great symphonies and concertos of Beethoven and Chopin. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, there are two piano sonatas by Walker along with a violin sonata, selected songs and a piano sonata, all Beethoven’s. Classical & Opera Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lim’s Beethoven shot to No. 1 on Billboard’s classical chart. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

The sonata could so easily have been a vehicle for showing off technique, and here it was much more showing off how it might have been played in Beethoven’s time, probably in someone’s living room. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z

Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven crash the symposium, looking for Rosen, in an extended comic ensemble written, cleverly, in the form of a sonata. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

So what’s particularly insufficient of misguided about, say, “Beethoven for Dogs?” Suicidal dogs and bipolar wolves 2012-09-26T22:56:00Z

The Beethoven was not without imperfections, but Mr. Gersen drew vivid dynamic contrasts from the orchestra. Review: New York Youth Symphony and the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields Perform 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

During the first half, lasting some 70 minutes with minimal breaks between pieces, Mr. Trifonov focused mostly on neglected — you might say orphaned — works by Beethoven and Schumann. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

This is critical because the Bowl, with its diverse mixture of outdoor programming — from Beethoven to Car Seat Headrest — is a major source of revenue for the Philharmonic. A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

During our present moment of crisis, Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with resolve and Brahms probes aching emotional ambiguities. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

A specialist in the music of Central European composers — notably Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Bruckner — he had built a respectable if not scintillating career amid the musical and political repressions of East Germany. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

The best of Beethoven interpreters find musical truth by marrying both of those polarities in his scores. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, partners in sublime 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The evening began with Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge in an arrangement for string orchestra by Michael Steinberg, a musicologist who died last year. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z

The Beethoven Sonata No. 24 was given an almost liquid touch and a great deal of subtlety. Pianist Jan Lisiecki: Extremely talented and incredibly young 2012-02-09T17:55:04Z

O'Malley said worries among members of the audience was palpable as the performer, known for such rock 'n' roll standards as "Johnnie B. Goode," "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Sweet Little Sixteen," left the stage. Rock great Chuck Berry falls ill during New Year's show 2011-01-02T19:01:49Z

But in his detailed instructions on the number and positioning of instrumentalists, Beethoven reveals how carefully he crafted this sonic assault on listener. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

It was an act of homage to his own personal Juliet and to his two great mentors, Shakespeare and Beethoven. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z

Beethoven lovers will have a chance to hear all nine symphonies in order from Oct. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

During rehearsals, my aim is always to try to ask for a style that is appropriate to each particular Beethoven symphony. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The program of Rossini, Beethoven and Brahms in itself was nothing remarkable. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Revered classics — Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" and Gershwin's "American in Paris," to name a few — are part of the picture. Seattle Symphony's new season: 'Doctor Atomic' is in there, so is 'Rite of Spring' 2011-01-19T20:11:23Z

“Victoria,” set to the composer David Gordon’s adaptation of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, will be his debut with Ailey. An Alvin Ailey Dancer Plans His Debut as a Choreographer 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” wasn’t the first rock ’n’ roll song, but it was the best and brashest of the genre’s early advertisements. Chuck Berry, Fiery and Flinty Rock ’n’ Roll Innovator 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

To end Mr. Langrée conducted the orchestra, the Concert Chorale of New York, the Young People’s Chorus, six vocal soloists and a brilliant pianist, Kit Armstrong, in Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy.” Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Finally, I made my way to the site where Beethoven died on March 26, 1827, at 56. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

To stand at Beethoven's desk, to see the ear trumpets, like instruments of torture, and the notebooks he used when conversation became impossible, proved indelibly moving. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

Somehow, he added, she even once managed to milk a full and acoustically rich sound from a 19th-century piano while performing a Beethoven concerto. Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The program also included four songs by Beethoven, who was far less comfortable composing lieder than he was writing sonatas and symphonies. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z

Mr. Buchbinder is continuing to indulge his passion for Beethoven with a second set of discs on that composer’s 32 sonatas, this time in live recordings on the Sony Classical label. Music Review: Rudolf Buchbinder at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-15T22:36:11Z

While orchestra seasons tend to focus on conservative repertory — Mozart and Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky — recordings have been more reflective of current tastes and trends. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Bernstein’s lecture touches on points you will expect, if you’ve heard him hold forth on Beethoven elsewhere. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z

For listeners who have grown up hearing their Beethoven played by regular modern symphony orchestras, our performances will present some striking differences. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Why do you think Beethoven remains such an obsession for so many of us? A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

This may be the first recital program in history to balance the three Bs — Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — with 13 short new pieces. Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z

Last season, the pianist Paul Lewis played Brahms with these younger players, with Andris Nelsons at the helm; this year, it’s Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 from the same forces. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

In between, Ms. Koh and Mr. Wosner played “Elective Memory,” a duo in three movements, lasting about 18 minutes, written as a response to that final Beethoven violin sonata. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Although Beethoven can be seen as the first truly revolutionary composer, in a musical and political sense, he had a complex history with revolution. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Cohler notes in the program booklet that he wants to find a connection between Beethoven and Kanye West in his next concert. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

But kids also mentioned musician Michael Jackson, composer Beethoven and Washington Nationals slugger Bryce Harper, whose birthday is Friday. October’s class: Yu Ying second-graders 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

But purling reserve was less successful in conveying the melodrama of Brahms's youth or, indeed, the torrent of feeling that is Ludwig van Beethoven. Andsnes adds a bit of emotion to his repertoire 2011-04-04T17:07:00Z

In the Beethoven Sonata No. 8, the musical imagination was perhaps a little thinner, Waarts sounding more like an excellently trained student than a finished artist. Teen violinist Stephen Waarts offers imaginative take on classics in local debut 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a flash of Beethoven at his most experimental and daring. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Like Lewis, like Ludwig: if he can master the impossibilities of his own teenage scherzo, the Beethoven concertos should be a cinch. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z

During the Beethoven Ninth, the playing lacked precision and clarity now and then. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

But thanks to an invitation by the Naumburg Orchestra Concerts, the society will present a program of music by Mozart, Beethoven and Dvorak at the bandshell in Central Park. Critic’s Notebook: Chamber Music Society Gears Up for Naumburg Bandshell 2013-08-20T21:02:07Z

Others Beethoven’s last quartets, which was perhaps closer, though again not exactly right. Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Clearly, Beethoven had a more hopeless affliction – possibly nerve damage and certainly roaring tinnitus – but his reported descriptions of distortion and frequency loss now sound horribly familiar to me. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Over the next two weeks, I listened to nothing but Beethoven. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s preoccupation with making the concert experience really, really loud may mark the beginning of a musical arms race for ever louder and ever more stimulating symphonic performance. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

With sleek costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, the new dance is Mr. Morris’s fifth work choreographed to Beethoven for his group. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Opera House 2012-03-03T00:04:35Z

Chuck Berry’s 1956 song “Roll Over Beethoven,” later covered by the Beatles, captured what was happening. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Yet Fischer maintained a hypnotic, driving pulse that suggested that Beethoven's revolutionary achievements encompassed the invention of minimalism. Northern Sinfonia/Fischer – review 2013-03-18T17:49:30Z

As a Perspectives artist, he was omnipresent at Carnegie Hall last season; this year he returns for a single solo recital, with works by Beethoven, Schumann and Prokofiev. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

I have nothing against that, in the same way that some people like rock music or to go dancing and other people like to go to a Beethoven concert. The Carpetbagger: Michael Haneke Finds His Brando 2012-12-19T17:06:21Z

He has, after all, to be back in complete Beethoven shape by June, in time for his Beethoven marathon. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Do you think you might rerecord the Beethoven sonatas at some point?  | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z

A little later when wild Up took the stage, Koh ferociously dug into Rountree’s outrageously wild and wooly “Word. Language. Honey.” with the same intensity she brings to Bach, Beethoven and Philip Glass.  The L.A. Phil's nonstop new music marathon, 'Noon to Midnight' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Yet this is a mystical and craggy Beethoven score that transcends style and era. Music Review: John Oliver Leads the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-08T22:44:17Z

Taylor even assembled a segment of fragments that barely made it to our ears — forgotten or abandoned by Beethoven, but necessary to the story. Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

But back to Beethoven, whose symphonies were played and recorded and broadcast and streamed this season, seeming even more than usual. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Beethoven described the first movement as the “awakening of cheerful feelings upon arriving in the country.” Review: The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Strauss With Abundant Color 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

The tremendous achievement of Schiff’s lecture-recitals lies in pulling Beethoven back to earth, and into the workshop—where the pianist’s craft is as joyous to observe as that of the composer he interrogates. Sleepless Nights with András Schiff and Beethoven’s Sonatas 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Then it was over to the market square, where Beethoven’s most influential early teacher, the composer Christian Gottlob Neefe, discussed Enlightenment ideals with local intellectuals. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Beethoven’s paean to freedom, and his only opera, returns to the Met in a classic production by Jürgen Flimm, and with a superb cast. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

This ensemble delivers a program that hops happily across the centuries, with music by Geminiani, Beethoven, Clara Schumann and, most intriguingly, a new piano concerto by Christopher Cerrone, “The Air Suspended.” 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The music builds up line by line, growing in confidence until the full orchestra blazes in with a broad, triumphant melody which Beethoven then uses as the basis of a set of exuberant variations. Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel - 23 June 2012-06-22T08:52:00Z

In the nearly hourlong “Diabelli” Variations, Beethoven takes a dumpy waltz tune by the publisher Diabelli and explores its musical facets and possibilities, resulting in a colossal, idiosyncratic set of 33 variations. Two Pianists Offer Contrasting Paths of Exploration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

And Paul Lewis will play the five Beethoven piano concertos. Violin Stars Will Celebrate Isaac Stern at Tanglewood 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

These composers were not just Beethoven’s contemporaries, but also knew him personally, competed with him for attention and even published his music. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

It's taken from a 1911 book by composer Arnold Schoenberg, in which he illuminates the harmonic language of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

So basically the film's entire premise – that Schindler was obliged to turn detective and interview all of Beethoven's old conquests, looking for the anonymous true love mentioned in his will – is wrong. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

Schubert, who — in contrast to Beethoven — was principally known as a songwriter during his own lifetime, was the other great innovator of the song cycle. The agony and the ecstasy: an evening of gorgeous music by suffering composers 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The players showed imagination in closing programs with short encores, including a harmonically juiced-up arrangement of Beethoven’s popular piano piece “Für Elise” and, on Valentine’s Day, “My Funny Valentine.” A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Instead of Beethoven caged, we need Beethoven in the wild. Review: New York Youth Symphony Fearlessly Tackles Beethoven’s Ninth 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Beethoven seldom upgraded West, rather West infected Beethoven with contemporary funk and spunk. In an orchestra's meet-and-mash of Kanye West and Beethoven, classical kicks it with a hip-hop beat 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman, artist in residence with the orchestra this year, will be the soloist in three programs over three weeks, performing the five Beethoven piano concertos and his Triple Concerto. Opera & Classical Music Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Musically and technically, Beethoven was the first composer who really opened up the next level of possibility for the cello. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

He’s written a symphonic piece with Ben Folds slated for next spring and made large-scale abstract images based on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to serve as audience meditation aids. Uninvited Pigeon invades author Mo Willems’ TV special 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

He did much the same for Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-10T21:55:31Z

“Twitter is not a debate platform. I used to think it is,” he said on the morning of his Carnegie concert, a Beethoven third concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic. Igor Levit not content to be heard only through piano 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

In the third movement, a melody based on the Beethoven figure changes from something down-home and soothing to noble and heartfelt. Marc-André Hamelin – review 2013-06-28T15:45:01Z

I try to smile and make small talk with the little kid next to me who played Beethoven on piano, but the pain is obvious. Kyle Mooney: The First Time I Was Upstaged at a Talent Show 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

It has a slithering, cascading finale, with a coda that ends with a cadential sequence Beethoven might have been proud of. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The music is brilliant but if you play a piano concerto of Beethoven, that's already been done a million times by brilliant pianists. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z

It might be tempting to call this recording Harnoncourt’s “last word” on Beethoven. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

On Thursday two young talents — the violinist Benjamin Beilman and the pianist Andrew Tyson — come together for works by Dvorak, Debussy and Beethoven. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Over the course of three concerts, one a month, the ensemble plays an early and a middle-period Beethoven string quartet, with something new by an emerging composer inserted in between. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

But if you take the words out, as Beethoven was obliged to do, its message is wonderfully ambivalent. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

If Beethoven embodied the heart of the recital and Brahms occupied its soul, then Schumann’s Symphonic Études served as its manic nerve center. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

His performances and recordings of Beethoven were especially distinguished. Claude Frank, Pianist Admired for Performances of Beethoven, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

From March 30 through April 1, Mr. Kavakos conducts and performs with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, Germany, in a program of works by Bach, Beethoven and Sibelius; leonidaskavakos.com. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

Grimsley, 54, will close out 2011 doing exactly that, performing as one of four distinguished vocal soloists in Seattle Symphony Orchestra's traditional, year-end program built around Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Beethoven's Ninth closes out 2011 at SSO 2011-12-23T07:47:28Z

Petrenko drives Beethoven hard – not necessarily a fault in itself – but the first two movements in this instance felt unduly pressured. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z

Maybe, but the Beethoven who emerges in this account sounds like someone confidently taking his place as a master. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

And the Emerson String Quartet will play Bartok’s six quartets and Beethoven’s “Razumovsky” Quartets in three concerts. Lincoln Center’s Next Season: New Isolde, New John Adams Concerto 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

As for the ending, Beethoven’s original deus ex machina — virtue rewarded, evil punished — was referred to as a relic of a better time, but not something possible in the real world. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Denk will travel with the orchestra, to play Beethoven, and one of the stops will be a two-day residency at University of California, Berkeley. Seattle Symphony’s new season: Renée Fleming, world premieres and Sibelius 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

For wine lovers, drinking such renowned bottles would be the equivalent of a college course in Shakespeare, Beethoven or Charlie Parker. How Income Inequality Has Erased Your Chance to Drink the Great Wines 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

She drops an appropriate quote from Glenn Gould, he from Beethoven. A Lofty Love Story, With All of the Expected Twists 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

It was dampened only by the inflated orchestra; Beethoven can benefit from fewer instruments, for balance, clarity and, above all, energy. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Your passion for Beethoven, which you also will play at the Wallis, is not so personal, is it? Jonathan Biss on Schumann, Beethoven and why 'piano is daily bread' 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

This week’s program, first performed on Tuesday evening, is the third and last in the orchestra’s Beethoven festival built around the five piano concertos, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist and Alan Gilbert conducting. Glenn Dicterow’s Finale With the Philharmonic Is Beethoven 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

He asked for a Russian tune in each, and Beethoven obliged in the first two. 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

There may be no definitive way of programming a cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas, whether it's in strict chronological order or with a balance of early, middle and late works in each recital. András Schiff – review 2013-03-18T16:03:29Z

To get into screenwriting mode, for example, Herzog reads ancient Icelandic poetry and then drives his wife crazy by listening to Beethoven on repeat. Is the future of education paying $90 to watch Werner Herzog tell stories about eating maggots? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Lewis has made himself a specialist in exactly the Viennese classical repertoire that Brendel made his own: Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z

I often wonder how Beethoven would react to modern-day hearing aids considering his great frustration with the ear trumpets of his day. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z

I had described myself as being stood on a heap of telephone directories to sing the descant to Beethoven's Creation's Hymn. Peter Carey? Doesn't know his leeches. Tom McCarthy? Bad on moths 2010-10-17T20:44:00Z

After hearing Bridgetower play, Beethoven not only agreed to participate in a concert for him at the Augarten, but also decided to write something for them to perform together. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

At a certain point in a complete musical traversal — of all Shostakovich’s string quartets, say, or all nine Beethoven symphonies — you inevitably reach the less popular works. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev’s Overlooked Piano Sonatas 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

The superb Inon Barnatan was the soloist in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, capturing both the majestic and mercurial elements of this great work. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Another of San Francisco’s additions to the body of rarely recorded works — albeit by a rather more widely known composer — is Beethoven’s early, superb “Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II.” After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

We also hear a bit from the glorious Ninth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, as if to announce “Brexit” as a dystopian thriller glossing an apocalypse currently in progress. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

I am looking into the whole collection of Beethoven sonatas; I just play one after the other. ‘Joy in the Grief’: Musicians Are Making Art in a Pandemic 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Next, because the continuation of a phrase also needs to follow a certain musical form, whether it's a scherzo, trio or fugue, the AI needed to learn Beethoven's process for developing these forms. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

From Tuesday through Sunday, Mr. Nelsons will lead that ensemble through all nine Beethoven symphonies, which it also just performed in the composer’s hometown at the Beethovenfest Bonn. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

He zoomed in on particular gestures, such as Beethoven’s curious exploitation of trills — bombastic and lyrical — to suggest connections across all three movements, and was attentive to the concerto’s enormous span of contrasts. Seattle Symphony reaches another high with John Luther Adams’ searingly beautiful ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Beethoven completed his Ninth Symphony in 1824, which concludes with the timeless "Ode to Joy." How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

And she is very funny: witness the above Mrs Beethoven answer, or her riff about shiny children. TV review: QI Jingle Bells Christmas edition 2012-12-22T08:00:03Z

His Fifth Symphony brazenly courted comparisons with Beethoven’s. Review: Christopher Rouse Leaves a Haunting Final Symphony 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

The group’s final concert in New York is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 12, and features the city premiere of a Philip Glass piano quintet alongside works by Beethoven and Nico Muhly. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Within six months Brigitte learned how to read sheet music and could perform works from Beethoven and Mozart. Preschool pianist's Carnegie Hall debut postponed due to lack of COVID-19 vaccines for children 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

To blow off steam, she plays Beethoven, thunderously. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

“The Beethoven Frieze,” inspired by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, was originally painted directly on the walls of Vienna’s Secession museum and exhibited in 1902, intended to remain only temporarily. Austria Won't Return Klimt Painting Stolen by Nazis 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Some historians say it memorializes the destruction of Munich in World War II; others that it was Beethoven and his disavowal of Napoleon — or maybe both — that was in Strauss’s mind. Sarah Chang and National Philharmonic shine in thoughtful and passionate program

In it, Mr. Rosen, building on the work of Donald Tovey and other musicologists, set forth the structural principles that lend the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven its characteristic texture. Charles Rosen, Pianist, Polymath and Author, Dies at 85 2012-12-11T01:24:22Z

Though in this, her 400th birthday year, she’s hardly a household name like Beethoven or Mozart, the page is active with announcements of concerts, album releases and articles. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

But the Schubert and the Beethoven were really only hors d'oeuvres; the concert's main course was Brahms's First Piano Concerto, with Paul Lewis as the soloist. Bournemouth SO/Karabits/Lewis – review 2013-04-11T17:21:53Z

Virginia Woolf's most experimental book, The Waves, was partly influenced by Beethoven's quartets; Gunn's is not just influenced by Scottish bagpipe music, it seeks to inhabit it. The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z

The evening, led by music director Marin Alsop and devoted to Beethoven and Mahler, never quite shook off that sense of disappointment but nonetheless offered some compensations. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

He opens the University of Washington’s World Music Series with music by Beethoven and Schumann, Ruth Crawford Seeger and 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León, and a new work of his own. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

There were three encores each night, including Schubert impromptus and Beethoven bagatelles. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

“Prism III” is the third installment in what this quartet describes as a beam of music through a prism, tracing connections across centuries by juxtaposing Bach fugues, late Beethoven and works of the 20th century. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

I’ve heard from more than one reader over the years averring that an orchestra’s role is simply to play the music of Beethoven, Brahms and their ilk: Forget contemporary stuff, much less diversity. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Last Tuesday Mr. Schiff played a program that he will perform at Carnegie Hall in October, continuing his survey of the late piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, the orchestra filled in the programming: heavy on appearances by its music director, Andris Nelsons, and with a focus on Beethoven, whose 250th birthday last year was muted because of widespread concert cancellations. Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

As his banister, Mr. Andres seizes on the cadenza Beethoven wrote for the first movement of the Second Concerto some two decades after its initial publication in 1801. Review: Beethoven Gets a Sequel at the New York Philharmonic 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Padel, though, suggests — daringly but compellingly — that Beethoven’s isolating deafness contributed to his greatness. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

When we hear a Brahms symphony or a Beethoven piano sonata, we carry around with us our previous hearings. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Drawing attention to “Beethoven the avant-gardist” raises the question of whether there is still an avant-garde in composition. Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

If Strathmore and the union reach an agreement, the BSO could return for a concert of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 on Jan. 6. How a dispute with a handful of Strathmore ticket-sellers led to impasse with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, canceled concerts 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

It’s like a mantelpiece glittering with snapshots from the ages with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and others that showcase Ms. Mutter’s honeyed tone. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Richard Reed Parry, Brahms and More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

She asked him what it was, and he said Beethoven. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Widmann used the same instrumentation called for in those Beethoven works. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z

He is also eager to return to the stage: His next engagement is a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Staatskapelle’s New Year’s concert. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

On this one I was trying to come to Camper Van Beethoven, R.E.M. and other bands. The Decemberists bring Americana landscape to Paramount Friday 2011-02-17T22:12:01Z

There are moments in the Beethoven slow movements that are as evocative of the great beyond as the most impressive vistas of nature. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Beethoven based that genial four-movement work — composed around 1805, with the piano in a central role — on his Opus 103 Wind Octet and Opus 4 String Quintet, itself an arrangement of the octet. Music Review: Beethoven Project Trio at Alice Tully Hall 2010-05-19T22:16:00Z

A concert on Friday at Avery Fisher Hall featured Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in war horses by Mozart and by Beethoven, whose music is being highlighted along with Mozart’s this summer. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z

For the occasion Mr. Lubimov looked at the forward end of the fortepiano repertory, beginning and ending with late Beethoven sonatas and offering a Glinka rarity and a pair of Schubert impromptus between them. Music Review: Alexei Lubimov at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-28T22:12:14Z

Handel was for Beethoven the greatest of all composers, and music’s finest dramatist. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

“I always say to them: ‘I expect all of you to agree on how to play Beethoven,’” he said. Orchestra That Bridges Mideast Divide Tours a Fractured U.S. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

To hear so much new to this ensemble — even Beethoven’s Second, while hardly a rarity, is probably the least played of his piano concertos — is a heartening sign of searching artistic leadership. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

He was, for instance, back at the Bowl conducting Beethoven last summer, this time the Fifth Symphony. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Early on Mr. Levine had some intriguing programming ideas, like a series of concerts exploring the links between Beethoven and Schoenberg. Critic?s Notebook: A Maestro?s Unfinished Legacy 2011-03-03T23:23:55Z

The program’s two Beethoven sonatas were built from all the right blocks, but I couldn’t connect with them. Jonathan Biss Plays Beethoven at the 92nd Street Y 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

I don’t mean to sound down on Beethoven’s astonishing symphonies. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

At the end, Beethoven once again reveals the three-note theme, then folds his hands in prayerful repose. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z

Yes, it’s a good idea to tie this to the quasi-expressionistic drive of Beethoven’s music, don’t you think? Dance Review | Lyon Opera Ballet: Works by Cunningham, Forsythe and Marin at the Joyce Theater 2010-03-11T20:24:00Z

Beethoven wanted the date of the concert to be either May 3 or 4, and expected an immediate response; the situation was “urgent.” The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

For the pianist Jonathan Biss, 34, who teaches an online course about Beethoven and is midway through recording the complete 32 sonatas, “On the one hand, Beethoven is unspeakably profound,” he said. Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

In the last movement, Hopkins introduced Beethoven’s undying setting of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” with an ode to urgency. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

In the 18th century, wine from Tokaj was delivered to kings and rulers throughout Europe, and it was enjoyed by Beethoven, Schubert, Voltaire and Goethe. In Slovakia, a Wine Region Waiting for the Spotlight 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

A not dissimilar project followed in 1988, when he recorded Barry Cooper's realisation of the sketches for Beethoven's Tenth Symphony, while a complete Beethoven cycle recorded for Pickwick won considerable acclaim. Wyn Morris 2010-04-19T18:14:00Z

It has the further advantage of — unlike Beethoven’s Fifth, with which Lamell will conclude the program — being obscure, giving Prager interpretive wiggle room. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

The title of the new album, “Hope Amid Tears,” comes from an inscription Beethoven wrote on a copy of the manuscripts for the Cello Sonata No. 3 in A that he sent to a patron. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

In an essay for The Guardian, he wrote of Beethoven as a composer who “lives his freedom and achieves it in ever-new ways.” Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The Philadelphia Orchestra commissioned some contemporary works to go alongside the cycle that would actually have some sort of reflection on the world we live in today and look at Beethoven through that light. Carnegie Hall Counts Down to Its Reopening 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Phil and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in a program of music by Beethoven. Gustavo Dudamel makes his case for keeping quiet on Venezuelan politics 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Amazingly, Beethoven continued composing even though, in his late 20s, he began losing his hearing. Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

It’s the way Beethoven would have wanted it. ‘I hope they come back here again’: Seattle Symphony brings music to prison inmates 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

This was not the Beethoven of easy answers. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

And Beethoven’s late sonatas require a heftier instrument than the kind Haydn first encountered. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

He struggled to remember the names of any of his other guest collaborators, and brushed off a lengthy question about his cover of Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven," saying its inclusion was a management decision. Jerry Lee Lewis lost for words as he turns 75 2010-09-29T09:21:00Z

“I’m particularly looking forward to the concert of Mahler and Beethoven by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim, and the cycle of flamenco and zarzuelas,” he said. In Transit: Madrid Festival Offers Diversity of Genres 2011-06-14T10:00:23Z

A wordless poker game acted out to Beethoven, for example, has its comic appeal, but the synchronization was just as impressive for demonstrating Kovacs’s experimentation with sound and image. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z

But Beethoven more or less started the idea of the composer as colossus: a heroic visionary with a rare link to transcendent realms, creating symphonic works for the ages. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

It offered not only sober Beethoven busts, recordings and scholarly books and scores — but also Beethoven chocolates, Beethoven wines and, yes, Beethoven rubber duckies. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The presence of a fine pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as soloist in the Beethoven, was not enough to lure me to that concert. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

How are you asking the listener to think differently about Beethoven’s music through this kind of programming? Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The group treats it as a searching, sorrowful colloquy, both an echo and an ancestor of the Beethoven and Bartok, ending with an exhalation of harmonious resolution. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

I prefer performances of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony that somehow convey to listeners how extreme, how radical the piece was when new and in many ways remains. Is ‘Playing It Safe’ Bad for Classical Music? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

A second concert will feature two choral works: Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Lincoln Center’s Great Performers: A Peek at Next Season 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

He let Beethoven powerfully speak for himself, while also giving the music a strong kick in the pants. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

He is also a bracing Beethoven interpreter who should bring freshness to these familiar scores. Bracing Beethoven Interpreter 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

With an unusually large audience, the orchestra was engaged and the conductor infectiously dynamic with performances of Beethoven, Bartok and Tchaikovsky. Andris Nelsons Brings Old World Flavor to Boston Symphony 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Green will also be profiling Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Elgar. BBC Radio 4's Charlotte Green to join Classic FM 2013-03-15T17:28:07Z

In one recent episode Jack Black made a hysterical Beethoven. Sketch Comedy’s New Faces on TV 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rosman added: “My next project is playing Beethoven on period instruments in Italy. It’s really interesting, going into that kind of research. They’re going, ‘Well, the composer asked for that, then.’ Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

He opened with the sonata, part of the final triptych Beethoven wrote while completely deaf. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z

The final poem, “Musica Humana,” begins with a description of a postmortem examination of Beethoven’s inner ears, the auditory canal “covered in glutinous scales/shining throughout the autopsy.” Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Here is fresh, intelligent yet daring Beethoven playing, alert to the flights of wildness in the music. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z

A single Beethoven sonata, the E flat Op 27 no 1, preceded the Ives, all its transitions perfectly judged by Williams, and linked neatly with the Concord Sonata, with its references to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Ll?r Williams 2010-08-30T15:38:00Z

Such aural horrors would prompt turbulence and despair in most musicians – and the lonely Beethoven, no stranger to either emotion, contemplated suicide. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z

Phil is capable of greater polish and refinement than the Bolívars, but the urgency of Bolívar Beethoven is unique. Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Then a horn lingers indefinitely, a looming punctuation mark and a subtle bridge to the first bar of the Beethoven. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

As in his Beethoven, Pollini's tempos were generally fast and almost ferociously focused. Maurizio Pollini ? review 2011-02-28T22:30:01Z

This year, the offerings include a major celebration of Beethoven, which is not exactly daring. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

Together they found just the right sense of elegance and ease in Beethoven’s sunny Cello Sonata No. 3. The bar was set high for Austrian cellist Kian Soltani, and his latest recital delivered 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

What Racine, Murillo, Raphael, Bach, Beethoven and Schubert were to their times, according to Solzhenitsyn — a spiritual foundation — the movies, a popular and collaborative art, have become since. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Concert halls around the world are programming Beethoven this year to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Explore Schubert 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Some music now considered transporting was simply too revolutionary for its time: Beethoven’s late works often baffled his peers but inspire us. Music Review: Juilliard School?s Focus! Festival Celebrates John Cage 2012-01-29T22:47:28Z

At the Kennedy Center, he approached the score with his hallmark light fleetness, the way he conducts Beethoven, or the translucent Verdi Requiem he led here in 2018. Review | National Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Tristan’ was lacking in D.C. They made up for it in New York. 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

He’s describing the plot of “Fidelio,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But the music was a revelation: two great piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, and a stellar piano soloist who also proved a nimble conductor from the keyboard. Seattle Symphony welcomes an audience back to Benaroya Hall for the first time in 14 months 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

If you're interested in who Beethoven's immortal beloved might really have been, don't watch this. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

Beethoven was completely deaf by this point, and wrote the last two quartets without any prospect of income from them. 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

He remained onstage for the “Choral Fantasy,” which Beethoven hastily wrote as a finale for the Akademie, utilizing all the instrumental and vocal forces of the program for a paean to art and music. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

And that has paid dividends: The Cleveland Orchestra's performance of a program of Beethoven and Smetana drew raves for the acoustics in a review from the music critic of The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Smith Center aims to put Las Vegas on culture map 2012-07-08T01:06:04Z

After acclaimed accounts of Beethoven’s last sonatas and Bach’s partitas, Mr. Levit shows no sign of slowing down. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

When the players then ripped into the development section with an infectious enthusiasm, they made visceral Beethoven revolutionary spirit. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Mahogany L. Browne, Lincoln Center’s first poet in residence, read as part of a program that offered works by Anna Clyne and George Walker next to classics by Copland and Beethoven. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

But Tuesday’s recital of works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schoenberg and Berg sought the kinship between the Classical and the Modern. Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The first Beethoven sonata I learned as a young pianist was the dramatic “Pathétique.” Glenn Gould’s Every Detail. But Why? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

For the Mozart and Beethoven, he expanded the orchestra’s string body but kept it to chamber orchestra proportions. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Jeffrey Kahane - Review 2011-11-23T23:13:03Z

Not to be confused with: Beethoven, who only stretched to six days when given the Radio 3 trainspotter treatment in 2005. Pass notes No 2,892: Mozart 2010-12-05T21:00:00Z

Mr. Jordan offered a no-nonsense, lean and rhythmically articulate account of Beethoven’s Seventh. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Mr Swafford is good on musical influences on Beethoven, who was seen as Mozart’s heir and taught by Haydn as a young man but claimed, probably wrongly, that he learnt nothing from his mentor. Sturm und Drang 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

And the San Francisco Symphony happened to pair Alfred Brendel playing Beethoven's "Emperor" with the "Harmonium" premiere. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

American orchestras planning yet another run-through of Beethoven’s Seventh might instead take a crack as Shapero’s masterpiece. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

We never need to go far for a little — or a lot — of Beethoven in our concert halls. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Those who need grand statements in their Beethoven might be disappointed, whatever the grinding insistence of his Fifth Symphony, the liquid flow of his Sixth, the effervescence of his Eighth. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Before leading “Absolute Jest,” Mr. Adams spoke engagingly about the piece and had the Brentano players perform excerpts from some of the Beethoven Mr. Adams borrowed, which was very helpful. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Preferably by Sibelius – not the Finnish composer, but the affordable software programme that lets anyone become a bedroom Beethoven. The top 10 gay movie cliches 2013-03-25T19:40:00Z

Since I started this look back with memories of Beethoven at Carnegie, let me use him to explain how I’ve experienced the hall over the years. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The second and final concert in this Beethoven survey is on Sept. Music Review: Edward Arron and Jeewon Park Play Beethoven at Bargemusic 2012-09-10T23:40:57Z

But no: Beethoven always seems to find a way to find a way through, even to triumph. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

The German baritone Christian Gerhaher, who took master classes with the great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, would make his mentor proud with this recording of lieder by Beethoven, Schoenberg, Haydn and Berg. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

Also in February, the Danish String Quartet performed Beethoven’s 16 quartets in six concerts over 12 days at Alice Tully Hall, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

These were works for strings, after all: trios by Beethoven and Kodaly and the “American” Quintet by Dvorak. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, With Works for Strings 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Next season the orchestra will continue with a Mahler cycle and its Beethoven Project. 2010-02-11T08:29:00Z

The other two concerts are Joshua Bell’s appearance with the orchestra as conductor and soloist on Feb. 11 and Christoph Eschenbach’s final concert as music director on June 17, with Beethoven’s 9th. American music for an inaugural week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Often, the conventionality of the movement and video imagery served to undercut Tilson Thomas' musical approach, which emphasized Beethoven breaking the bounds of musical and liturgical convention in almost every possible way. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Its themes of sacrifice, human rights and liberation were very much in tune with the times and with Beethoven's own political outlook. How you can take part in Seattle Opera's 'Fidelio' 2012-09-07T21:28:04Z

In November 2019, the team met in person again — this time, in Bonn, at the Beethoven House Museum, where the composer was born and raised. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

One of Beethoven’s feats here, Mr. Levit added, is how simplicity is made theatrical by passing those E’s back and forth between the left and right hands. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

But this 1814 installment in Beethoven’s symphonic output — his shortest, at only 25 minutes — is a wonder of concision that asks more questions than it answers, and masks its innovations in lightheartedness and seeming irony. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

While it feels a little odd to get to the end of Beethoven’s Fifth and not have an audience roar into applause, the music benefits from being presented absolutely without distraction. Gerard Schwarz assembles an ‘All-Star Orchestra’ for TV 2013-07-15T18:13:33Z

Mr. Biss was excellent in both works, strong through the complexities — what he calls the “composed drunkenness” — of the Andres, and showing an especially fine touch in the Beethoven finale. Review: Beethoven Gets a Sequel at the New York Philharmonic 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Doing something similar, Mr. Adams chose fragments of scherzo movements from Beethoven’s late string quartets and other bits of Beethoven. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

The fifth and last of Beethoven’s landmark piano concertos gets a Seattle Symphony outing with French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, praised for his originality and flamboyance, as soloist. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Many of the writers are famous people, caught in a moment of accessibility and rawness or off-the-cuff virtuosity: Beethoven on his deafness: “I must live almost alone, like one who has been banished.” Explaining the Popularity of Letters of Note 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Yet Beethoven was not entirely finished with this theme, which later formed the basis of the funeral march from the Eroica Symphony. Northern Sinfonia/Dean – review 2013-05-12T13:55:17Z

My favorite is the score of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, dramatically marked by Gustav Mahler in 1909. 10 Treasures, Unearthed From the New York Philharmonic’s Archives 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Beethoven concerto, at 45 minutes the most substantial work, sat alone before intermission; after the pause came Chen Yi’s brief but meaty and varied “Duo Ye” for chamber orchestra, then Stravinsky’s 25-minute “Pulcinella” Suite. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

So Beethoven’s Ninth will be there on the official closing night, Aug. 28. Singing Will Return to Tanglewood This Summer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Although as Roe points out in the booklet notes, their musical DNA relates to slow movements in Mozart or Beethoven, the sound is uniquely Field’s. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The brilliant, boyish composer Andrew Norman talks about Beethoven and his own award-winning “Play,” part of which will be performed by the Philharmonic. 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

And last year, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its grand choral finale — the traditional ending of the summer there — weren’t heard. Singing Will Return to Tanglewood This Summer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

The music to listen to while reading Philip Roth’s “Indignation,” if you can bear to use it as background music, is Beethoven’s last quartet, his sixteenth, in F Major, Opus 135, his final completed composition. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

His Beethoven and Brahms Symphonies remain among the most tightly reasoned and precisely executed on the market, and his collaborations on those composers’ piano concertos, with Leon Fleisher, are still the gold standard. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

With an idiosyncratic mix of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Scriabin, two short pieces by Granados and a Liszt showpiece, the 24-year-old Grosvenor summoned the likes of the great Vladimir Horowitz. At 24, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers virtuosity beyond his years. If you haven't heard him, hear him now 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Still, the Beethoven as an Ethical Force industry collapsed after the war. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z

But there is still the question of Beethoven and human rights and the role of the performer. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

I include a compilation of Strauss as a conductor, leading not only his own works but Mozart and Beethoven symphonies as well. Richard Strauss Recordings Recommended by Critics 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

While no single gene can explain Beethoven, Yo-Yo Ma or “Waterloo Sunset,” Dr. Marcus does believe in natural talent, he said, or at least in the certainty he doesn’t have any. Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar 2012-01-26T00:47:36Z

One trademark of Mr. Fellner’s Beethoven is his light, crisp and measured touch, impressive in the concluding variations, which close on a somber note when the stately theme re-emerges. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

Yet Howell's bland, arpeggiated compositions sound like a technically skilled child trying to ape Beethoven or Bach, or like Michael Nyman on a bad day: fine for elevators but not for the concert hall. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z

Playing all six Beethoven quartets spoke both to musical influences on the then-young composer, as well as to the early development of his original ideas. 'The Emerson' returns to Seattle, promising world-class musical experience 2010-04-07T23:54:00Z

In the Beethoven, Mr. Freire set the tone with an understated account of the unaccompanied introduction. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Catalog Yields Tasty Plums 2011-08-21T21:56:08Z

In “Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph,” Jan Swafford described how the guests listened as “the players stumble through the strangest music any of them had ever heard.” From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

He may be best known for his sparkling clarity in French music and jazzy Gershwin, but those are ideal Beethoven qualities too, especially here. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

The musicians strike up their first piece, a Beethoven string trio. Bringing Classical Music to the Club Scene 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The RPS medal was created in 1870 to commemorate the centenary of Beethoven's birth and celebrates the close relationship between the composer and the society - which commissioned Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Opera star Tomlinson awarded medal 2014-05-08T14:36:25Z

He was certainly no Beethoven when it came to ambitious musical forms. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

What did Brahms see in Beethoven, whose marble bust stared down at him while he composed? Music Review: Piano Trios From a Pair of Kindred Masters 2011-02-08T22:23:04Z

Beethoven’s late quartets—and especially the last one—offer visions of strangeness and radicalness in a classical package. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Mark Swed sat in on a performance at Disney Hall that featured a program of Beethoven and Shostakovich. Essential Arts & Culture: Slashing the NEA, Deborah Borda leaves the L.A. Phil, a very sweet ballet 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

“I feel there’s no big human question that Beethoven isn’t interested in and doesn’t address in a powerful way,” he tells Times contributor Barbara Isenberg. Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Liszt was a champion of knotty works that mystified the public: not only music by contemporaries but also older scores, like the late Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

If his Beethoven Nine is overblown, his Mahler Nine is heartbreakingly understated. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Beethoven was arguably not a natural writer for the voice and was completely deaf by the time he composed this work; the result is challenging music that sometimes flows beautifully and sometimes taxes the singers. Wachner, Washington Chorus give powerful performance of ungainly ‘Missa Solemnis’

While in French and German, “bagatelle” means a trifle, when Beethoven titled three published volumes of solo piano pieces bagatelles he was being rather coy. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

In March 2013, before a players’ strike forced a cancellation, the orchestra envisioned playing Mahler’s Ninth Symphony and an evening of Brahms, Beethoven and Samuel Carl Adams’s “Drift and Providence.” Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

In musical terms, it’s Paul Simon rather than Beethoven. 5 ways to drink in Portugal’s charms 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

The use of Beethoven’s Fifth as interstitial music suggests only middlebrow ambition. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

His audiences heard plenty of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven and Stravinsky. Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z

As the orchestra plays pieces by Beethoven, Haydn and Tchaikovsky, speedboats will patrol the lake and security forces will set up a security cordon two miles from the event. Security tight as conductor Zubin Mehta faces the music in Indian Kashmir 2013-09-05T12:14:07Z

The pianist will be playing all five Beethoven piano concertos in four concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, with different orchestras and different conductors. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z

Yet it is all that is left to me,” Beethoven wrote in 1801, despairing at his encroaching deafness and other physical ailments. Music Review: Richard Goode at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-03T22:16:10Z

Once the excitable St. Lawrence enters, those dotted Beethoven rhythms from the scherzos of his late quartets and symphonies become manic. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The transition, or lack thereof, is characteristic of Beethoven; Mr. Levit described it as “a car crash moment.” Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It was like hearing a Beethoven symphony,” he recalls. Tour the Top Floor of Pierre Bergé's Paris Apartment 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

In his farewell recital, he aptly plays Beethoven’s last piano works, the Bagatelles, op. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

Today's offering gathers musicians from a wide array of organizations including members of Avalon String Quartet, Beethoven Project Trio and Chicago Reed Quartet. Celebrating Tax Day 2011-04-15T17:28:00Z

Simple - one-man shows about such composers as George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven. Leonard Bernstein comes to life in New York 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Informally known as the “Spring Sonata,” the piece is among Beethoven’s most beloved. Future looks bright for Byron Schenkman & Friends as season ends with ‘Beethoven & the Schumanns’ 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

It was a reminder of how Beethoven had inspired generations of very different artists. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

He made a series of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms recordings that mixed a modern, clear-eyed freshness with a clear-eared regard for classical tradition. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe the concerto, written around the time Beethoven was working on his “Eroica” Symphony but traffics instead on early 19th century pleasantries, was the wrong work for Pálfalvi. Cutting the Hollywood Bowl down to size 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

All his life Beethoven was a sucker for natural beauty, so this seemed an ideal setting for that ruminative bagatelle. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z

The mysterious opening of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is conjured repeatedly in Bruckner’s first movement. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z

Other legends of rock paid tribute to the man whose many hits included "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Roll Over Beethoven" and countless others. Statue honors music legend Chuck Berry 2011-07-29T19:38:10Z

And why not, given the conductor Xian Zhang’s tight, decisive reading of Beethoven’s Fourth in the first Alice Tully Hall program? At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

“The sort of lazy, obvious next step would have been Mozart, or Beethoven — which people would have loved, and we would have loved, of course,” he said. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s uncompromising seriousness of purpose echoed their own, and the heaven-storming drama, elegant refinement, controlled fury and profound serenity throughout the work all came to life in the group’s powerful performance. Shanghai Quartet proves its power 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

He was also a frequent guest conductor with the New York City Ballet, making his debut there in 2000 in the world premiere of Twyla Tharp’s “The Beethoven Seventh.” George Cleve, Conductor Who Interpreted Mozart, Dies at 79 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z

In these works, Beethoven grew increasingly fascinated with small musical motifs and ways to process them in a meaningful way. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

But, little by little, I discovered that there are other ways to interpret Beethoven’s music that are at least equally motivated in what he wrote. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Most traditional biographers are reticent about guessing how Beethoven’s deafness affected his composing. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Zander: Beethoven is in all probability the greatest composer who ever lived. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

With all the new pieces, Hahn fans also were grateful for the nobility of the Bach Violin Sonata No. 1, the exciting rush of the Beethoven Sonata No. 2, and the warmhearted Brahms "Sonatensatz." Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z