Discover an extraordinary season of classical music featuring a stellar line-up of homegrown and international talent ...

Keith Bruce reviews an extraordinary performance from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, showcasing the works of teen virtuosos.

Different means, but the same goal, and for Beethoven that means is his Ninth Symphony. The setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy was not motivated by any overt religious belief or sentiment, any more than ...

Zweden’s appearance launches a three-season cycle of Beethoven symphonies, including performances of the composer’s second and seventh symphonies in February, 2026; additional major orchestra ...

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 traced a progression “from darkness to light,” he added, while the overture, written for Beethoven’s political prison break opera “Fidelio,” represented the ...

One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness. Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was attacked by jaundice, his limbs and ...

This week's orchestra in focus is the BBC Symphony Orchestra and it performs Beethoven's 6th Symphony - the Pastoral - under its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Also on the orchestra's playlist ...

At Boston’s Symphony Hall, if concertgoers step through the door after the lights go down but before the music starts, conductors (and soloists, if applicable) usually either start the show ...

Gary Ruschman brings an admittedly eclectic musical background to his work as one of four soloists in the Mankato Symphony Orchestra ... Mozart and Beethoven. “The Emperor and Mozart ...

Dallas Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Alexander ... The DSO rarely books the biggest name conductors — Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Rattle, Nathalie Stutzmann et al. — as podium guests.