Richard Wigmore selects his favourite version of Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and Kirsten Gibson shares her choice of the latest classical releases. Richard Wigmore selects his favourite version of ...

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1942 into a Russian Jewish family, Daniel Barenboim was a piano prodigy who first made his name in the 1960s as a performer of the classical keyboard repertory.

Aiken Symphony will present works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms at its November Masterworks concert.

Daniel Barenboim directs his first Beethoven symphony cycle in London and becomes the first conductor since Henry Wood in 1942 to survey all nine symphonies in a single Proms season His dynamic ...

In the 1880s, the German conductor Hans Von Bulow personally anointed what has sometimes been called the Holy Trinity of ...

Austin concert pianist Anton Nel magnificent playing all five Beethoven concertos with Austin Symphony Orchestra ...

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Solti made his first recording of Mahler's Fourth Symphony (Decca 7BB178, 11/75) with the Concertgebouw Orchestra had made a legendary live recording of the work under one of the greatest of all ...

Check out photos from San Francisco Opera's October 26th performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, conducted by Eun Sun Kim, ...

While en route to Beirut in 1984 to cover the civil war, he tells us, he has Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony in his ears, thanks to a new-fangled device called a Sony Walkman. Almost 40 years on ...

Beethoven Studies 4 is a collection of ten chapters that approach the composer and his music from an appealing range of critical standpoints, aesthetic, analytical, biographical, historical and ...

The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and ...