Energetic young composer Klaus Mäkelä presents an electrifying version of Ludwig van Beethoven's masterpiece Symphony no. 9 for the 200th anniversary of its premiere. Go to search Arte in English in ...

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them. If you’re ...

5, No. 7, and No. 9 — conveniently, there’s one apiece of those on the next three programs — and yet Symphony Hall was anything but empty. For better or worse, Beethoven is the vanilla ice ...

Riccardo Chailly’s first recorded Beethoven cycle shows him to be a Classicist through and through. This is no surprise given the classicising tendency of the Toscanini ... You can hear music-making ...

(Performances of Symphony No. 9 are slated for the fall ... While Coucheron has played Beethoven’s Symphonies 9 and 6 under Stutzmann, he’s looking forward to seeing how her approach to ...

Written when Beethoven was almost completely deaf, Symphony No. 9 received enthusiastic applause during its premiere in Vienna in 1824. The finale, Ode To Joy, scored for choir and soloists ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – The Spokane Symphony is preparing for a special New Year's Eve performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. This year, the event will feature a unique reunion as Eckart Preu ...

In an evening full of supremely weird moments, this was one of the weirdest: the long, arcing line of Beethoven’s greatest ...