The pieces so powerful that you’ll be out of your seat, air-conducting to the full force of an imaginary orchestra, or ...

The final program of the BSO’s cycle featured Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, and like the two others I attended, the house was ...

Judged in terms of name recognition, Ludwig Van Beethoven is almost certainly the best-known composer of classical music in ...

In fact, two of the works on the program were conventional, as they were both by Beethoven: the Overture to his ballet, “The ...

Beethoven’s famous Symphony No. 5 is a good example of how Beethoven’s symphonic style develops. It contains a continually growing independence of the woodwind, and a thicker texture ...

The San Diego Symphony concert on Saturday, January 18, featured Mozart and early Beethoven. Under normal circumstances, I’d ...

Nelsons’ reading highlighted the music’s play of light and shadow vividly, the quiet spots in the Symphony’s outer movements ...

Not every night does the music of Beethoven conjure the words and sentiments of Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Forster, and Louis Spohr. Then again, not every evening at Symphony Hall proves so stimulating as ...

and where he set out to compose some of his most famous pieces. Many of his works were meaty symphonies, and this creative ...

Besides being the soloist in one of the most famous of all violin concertos ... It’s all about that Beethoven during the fall ...

The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only ...