Joy! Your power reunites those separated by harsh reality, and all humans become brothers.” On the evening of the 23rd of ...

The discovery of a love letter revealed the depths of Beethoven’s yearning for his "immortal beloved." Scholars have been ...

Edo de Waart will open his second season as the Milwaukee Symphony’s music director with the big bang of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Those of us who witnessed de Waart’s first year with the MSO expect ...

This Beethoven Symphony No. 9 from the outstanding Beethoven 9 Project of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker, first time recorded in HD and 5.0 surround sound, is accompanied by a one ...

LENOX — When the Boston Symphony’s Music Director Andris Nelsons bounded out to the podium Saturday night to open Tanglewood’s classical season, there was a jaunty spring to his step. In a preseason ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Brendel, who died on Tuesday at 94, concentrated on a small number of canonical composers, mainly Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. By Zachary ...

There was a huge crowd, nearly a completely full house, on Thursday night at Symphony Center when Riccardo Muti returned to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The 83-year-old music director emeritus ...

We need Beethoven. Especially the 9 th Symphony with Schiller’s Ode to Joy. “Freude, schöner Götterfunken/Tochter aus Elysium,/Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmlische/, dein HeiligtumFreude menschen ...

Superb singing from the chorus and vocal soloists can’t entirely carry this performance of the symphony under Music Director Eun Sun Kim. Eun Sun Kim bows to the audience after conducting the San ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. To listen to a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 is to enjoy a profound musical experience. One ...