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

Beethoven premiered his Septet for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and double bass in April 1800. It was such an immediate success that unofficial copies circulated, both spreading ...

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) continues its 2020/21 season of TSO On Demand concerts with two Masterworks programs: Beethoven Septet (February 12-March 4) and Vivaldi's Four Seasons (March ...

Manchester Camerata will bring Beethoven’s Septet and works by Anna Meredith to Turner Sims.

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

If you’re going to offer tragedy and comedy on the same concert program, you normally wouldn’t think of asking Ludwig van Beethoven to provide the laughs. But that’s the way the latest St. Paul ...