John O'Conor joins the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and conductor Gavin Maloney this March at the National Concert Hall to perform ...

David Robertson, conducting the world premiere of John Adams’ piano concerto “After the Fall” in Davies Symphony Hall this ...

In his 14 seasons as concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, David Coucheron has performed Beethoven’s music more times than he can remember. But ask about his first experience with the ...

On Thursday evening, the BSO and music director Andris Nelsons launched the central series of concerts of the Beethoven and ...

An unforgettable all-Beethoven programme featuring the monumental Choral symphony with its climactic ‘Ode to Joy’ performed by the renowned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The Barbican Hall is located ...

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Another was the extraordinarily original movement in Part 1 where bass Ashley Riches contemplated ... sort of classical-meets-jazz in the 4th Piano Concerto by the Soviet composer Nikolai Kapustin.

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is a near-universal Western cultural marker, a sweeping musical masterpiece marked by its glorious and irresistible “Ode to Joy” choral section. Even people who have no ...

Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...

This is the anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Beethoven is renowned as a great composer. Many people across the world know his name, that he wrote his best music after he became ...

Watch Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 on 9 July, Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 on 10 July, and Concerto No. 5 on 11 July. Beethoven’s five piano concertos trace a path from Classicism to Romanticism and are ...

Classic FM’s ‘Beethoven ... concerto, sonata and quartet and he combined vocal and instrumental music in his Ninth Symphony. His most famous works include nine symphonies, five piano ...