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 ...

Discover more about Beethoven in a season featuring Barenboim's entire symphony cycle. See the Highlights Collection for more great extracts from BBC Proms 2012. 1st mvt Beethoven 1st in C major ...

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 ...

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.

And what about the underappreciated sociable side of Beethoven's music to set alongside the familiar one of the heroic? Beethoven Studies 4 is a collection of ten chapters that approach the composer ...

Colleen Barry published the first interview with renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim since his severe neurological illness forced him to give up his full-time post at the Berlin State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the program is Bach’s Prelude in B Minor, BWV 869, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 in E Minor. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was renowned for his ...

Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians treated each of these concertos almost as symphonies, so closely did they engage ...

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, this documentary series focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer. Groomed for greatness by an ...