Ever since student days in Vienna with Toscanini fanatic Hans Swarowsky, Abbado has been in semi-permanent revolt against the Italian school of Beethoven interpretation. In these vibrant Rome ...

The small forces, based on between 26 and (in No 9) 31 strings ... is delightfully springy, while Beethoven’s infinite subtleties of scoring in the ‘Szene am Bach’, not least the drowsily syncopated ...

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra brings together refugee musicians and Ukrainian members of leading European orchestras. One day after the third anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, they ...