Some things only Beethoven can do. Such as, fill a venue to capacity on the strength of a single symphonic work. Or make songbirds jealous. Keith C. Elder, executive director of the Tulsa Symphony ...

The Spokane Symphony will conclude 2025 and ring in the New Year with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9.

Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth and final symphony took orchestral music in thrilling new directions when it debuted in 1824. It lasts more than an hour. Its climax calls for a full choir singing poet ...

The compositions of Beethoven open up the doors for mellifluous epiphany and scintillas of hope in dense darkness. It's important to decipher those 81 keys to unlock your heart Born on December 17, ...

The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

JHU Choral Society, Baltimore School for the Arts Chorus, Towson University Chorale directed by Mark Hardy and Diana Saez Take an epic journey with HSO as we finish our season with a bang. William ...

The French record label Naïve has released a new Beethoven Symphony cycle as a single 5-CD unit, forgoing individual releases of the symphonies, which have typically come out two to a disc, with the ...

My connection with this symphony goes back to my time at the Milan Conservatory, but I never dared to conduct such a masterpiece until 1990, when I was the Music Director at the Musicale Communale in ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: ‘City Lights’ by Lisa Batiashvili and ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is considered to be a genius of orchestral composition. Was he equally good at composing for singers? Well, some think that even geniuses have limitations. “He wrote very ...