Beethoven radically changed music, more than any other composer in history. In performing all nine of his symphonies, Alain Altinoglu has a superb opportunity to illustrate this. Schumann (through his...

‘I am not really pleased with the works I have written so far: from now on I want to take a new direction.’ The fateful year of 1802, when Beethoven became aware of his worsening deafness, brought abo...

Re: Beethoven - Oppression and Resistance (in response to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, "The Victory Symphony") “If I were a man, I would follow his banner anywhere”, Clärchen sighs as she awaits Egmon...

The Belgian National Orchestra and the young piano prodigy Kit Armstrong join forces to pay homage to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a key work in the genre’s development, in which the soloist and ...

‘It’s huge, it’s absolutely mad! You’d be scared the house might fall down!’ exclaimed Goethe in 1830, when Mendelssohn played him Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. La Monnaie’s Beethoven cycle would be inc...

Re: Beethoven - Pride and Persistence (in response to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony) If at first you don't succeed, try, try again? Or does love make you blind? It takes two to tango. In response to “...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again? Or does love make you blind? It takes two to tango. In response to “the apotheosis of dance” — that's how Wagner described Beethoven's Seventh Symphony (...

‘Beethoven’s music moves the levers of trembling, fear and dread and arouses that infinite yearning that is the essence of Romanticism.’ That was the author and composer ETA Hoffmann’s opinion of Beet...