When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his ...

Beethoven’s majestic but tender slow movement unfolds ... with its choral Ode to Joy, perhaps the greatest symphonic music ever written. The dramatic effectiveness on Thursday night was similar ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German ... recognisable moments of all orchestral music, and the end of his 9th symphony is thought by many to be the greatest melody ever written.

The film "Conducting Good Music" explores the role of the conductor ... or months This Kentucky Bourbon Was Just Named The World's Best ...

Beethoven pioneered Romanticism and expanded previously ... The Romantic era gave birth to the virtuoso. Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own ...

Considered as ahead of his time in his music, Beethoven appears to have been modern in his taste in hot beverages too. He liked his coffee and he liked it strong, starting every day by counting ...

which was described by Beethoven himself as his ‘greatest work’. Barry Cooper is a world-leading expert on Beethoven who has recently published a new critical edition of this masterpiece. This will be ...

Recordings don’t capture the full dynamics that are at play in Sibelius’s music. The next piece was Beethoven’s Piano Concerto ... this is considered to be the greatest fifth symphony ...