David Dubal on the “Hammerklavier.” ...

New Zealand String Quartet: Beethoven! Revolution (at the Civic Theatre, Invercargill) Once regarded as "the musical ravings of a deaf madman" the five string quartets included in the Beethoven!

LENOX - Big, booming dramatic symphonies. Beethoven made his reputation with them. More than two centuries later, many people can still hum the first few, dramatic notes of his Fifth Symphony or the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Seldom has anyone done so little to earn so much name recognition lasting centuries after his death as Rodolphe ...

John's album of the week is from pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, a man who is extremely passionate about the music of Beethoven. On this new album, he showcases the composer’s music both on ...

The country’s classical music scene was surprised at first when EMI Classics, a major record label, signed an exclusive recording contract with young pianist Lim Hyun-jeong, a first for a Korean ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It’s a passionate and sweepingly epic work, but there’s also drama off stage in what is arguably ...

Leif Ove Andsnes starts the final leg of his four-year ‘Beethoven journey’ with a startlingly fresh interpretation of the First and Fourth Piano Concertos, backed with instinctive intensity by the ...

Set to Beethoven's passionate Allegretto Piano Sonata #17 in D Minor, Tempest is part of Gillette's Classical Video series, which are visual translations of classical music. Here Gillette's image ...