Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies have influenced every generation of composers since they were written. Riccardo Chailly talks to Philip Clark about the enduring power of the symphonies Ludwig van ...

Decades of research have been poured into every musical and instrumental aspect of the “Historically Informed Performance” (HIP) of classical music: From the way the continuo bands of the time ...

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Beethoven's Ninth has topped the ABC Classic 100 countdown for the fifth time. We explore its mystique and shed light on composers following in Beethoven's footsteps.

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them. If you’re performing ...

Why do Beethoven's symphonies remain so appealing? It's a question we put to Simon Rattle a few years ago after he had finished conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in all nine of them. "There's nothing ...

This pared-back recording, which uses period-accurate instruments, makes Beethoven's thrilling music sound neat and prissy Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

My opinion may be little better than the layman's, but I believe it is incorrect to consider Beethoven's cycle of nine symphonies the 'bedrock of western music." It is not. The bedrock of western ...

The former British Prime Minister James Callaghan was asked late in his long life whether there was anything he regretted not achieving. He replied that he wished he could have written Beethoven’s ...

It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...

“HONOR TO BEETHOVEN” was the motto that appeared at the top of a program, printed by the Beethoven Quartet Society, in 1845. Over the course of eight weeks, the group of passionate London musicians ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook John Eliot Gardiner’s period-instrument survey at Carnegie Hall was a reintroduction to some of the world’s most ...