Artur Schnabel’s dictum that great music is always greater than it can ever be performed is never more apposite than with Beethoven, the ultimate restless seeker of new truths ... anti-Furtwänglerian ...

Judged in terms of name recognition, Ludwig Van Beethoven is almost certainly the best-known composer of classical music in America. Yes, Beethoven has yet to be the subject of an Academy ...

Part road trip, part adventure story, FOLLOWING THE NINTH is an inspirational film about Beethoven's Choral Symphony, its majestic power to liberate us, to shield us against suffering, to provide ...

The Ninth excepted, the original set has been ... s vision of a vital yet at the same time properly autochthonous Beethoven manner. Where the Berlin set lacked emotional intensity and sonic immediacy, ...

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 ...

Over the course of the project, the orchestra is to perform nearly all Beethoven’s symphonies plus the “Triple Concerto” and the choral “Missa Solemnis.” (The choral ninth symphony will ...