Beethoven’s 'Choral' Symphony at the BBC Proms

Throughout the season, Classical Live features highlights from the BBC Proms, the world’s greatest classical music festival.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Beethoven Ninth Symphony

'All people become brothers.' Beethoven’s epic final symphony, a vision for music and for humanity. Beethoven, by this time almost entirely deaf, conducted the premiere performance of his Choral ...
The New York Times

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the best of the stormy, tender work of the composer who changed music. In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the ...
WOSU Public Media

Beethoven was a classical and romantic composer, but his body was full of heavy metal

Ludwig van Beethoven was a prodigious composer. He’s credited with 722 individual works, including symphonies, sonatas, and choral music — creations that pushed the boundaries of composition and ...
San Diego Reader

Beethoven is gravity

We are now in the 250th anniversary year of Beethoven’s birth and there will be content created like never before. The internet is already dripping with articles about the grim master of the human ...
The Guardian

Classical home listening: Beethoven’s Eroica from Budapest; Tine Thing Helseth and band

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra inspire with a resounding account of Beethoven’s third symphony, while the Norwegian trumpeter and tenThing Brass Ensemble showcase female composers As ...
The New York Times

Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Brahms, Wagner, even Sondheim: All have followed the great master in building their works from small bits of music. By Anthony ...
The Guardian

Does Beethoven's music reveal his African roots?

A new album by the group Beethoven Was African aims to prove that the polyrhythms of the composer’s music point to west African heritage. But does their quest open up a more important debate in ...
The Independent

Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' transforms classical works into unique blues and gospel renditions

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What happens when you interrupt a classical pianist #piano #beethoven #brother

What happens when you interrupt a classical pianist? This video features a classical pianist performing a piece by Beethoven ...