Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

Ring in the new year with InConcert Sierra and the vitality and spirit of an all-Beethoven concert featuring the renowned ...

Beethoven’s iconic piano concertos are the subject of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s two-day “Beethoven Piano Concerto Marathon ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Pierre-Laurent Aimard juxtaposes the master with other troublemaking composers “so that we understand better what Beethoven meant.” ...

With even his stern face and wild artist's hair as iconic as his music, it’s not easy to remember that Ludwig van Beethoven was once a struggling up-and-comer. But at the end of the 18 th century and ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

Besides being a Cabinet Minister, a Deputy, a party chief and Mayor of Lyon, Edouard Herriot, thrice Premier of France, manages to turn out a good book almost every year. He may write about politics, ...