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 ...
On Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra capped off the first half of its “Beethoven and American Masters” festival. When the cycle concludes in spring 2023, the NSO ...
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jader Bignamini returns from Italy to conduct a program on Friday that will highlight works by Jessie Montgomery and Richard Strauss, and feature Beethoven's ...
The concert: The San Antonio Symphony under the direction of Sebastian Lang-Lessing. “Beethoven 6 & 7” repeats at 8 p.m. today at the Majestic Theatre downtown. First Take: A solemn sense of fate, a ...
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 ...
Metamorphosen Richard Strauss, Composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor Sinfonia Grange au Lac Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor Sinfonia Grange au Lac Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer ...