In our series Decoding the music masterpieces, music experts explain key works of classical music. Without question, the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony contains one of the most famous ...

Beethoven's Choral Symphony No. 9 in D minor has once again topped the ABC Classic 100, being chosen as Australia's greatest piece of classical music of all time. Every year since 2001, ABC Classic ...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — with its famous, jolting first four-notes — broke expressive ground and overturned many of the formal concepts on which the classical symphony had been based. The scoring ...

Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 stands alone among the nine symphonies as being more about the expression of rhythm and momentum than the exposition of melody. The symphony possesses ...

Though the modern listener may never know it, Beethoven composed after Haydn and Mozart, but not after Wagner and Brahms. Acknowledged as the reformer of the sonata form as used in the symphony, ...

Decades of research have been poured into every musical and instrumental aspect of the “Historically Informed Performance” (HIP) of classical music: From the way the continuo bands of the time ...

This year marks the 250th birthday of one of the most revered composers who ever lived: Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770. Beethoven wrote hundreds of piano sonatas, ...

A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

On the program: Beethoven, Symphony No. 8; Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"). Justin Brown, conductor. Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano; Margaret Jane Wray, mezzo-soprano; Jay ...

The relationship of music and literature is deep. Operas were often adapted from works of fiction, especially dramas and epic poems. Literature, too, has often taken inspiration from music in every ...

Virtual reality has brought us everything from immersive, first-person looks into Game of Thrones to a new way to play Angry Birds. However, those have been purely 21st century entertainment. The Los ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook John Eliot Gardiner’s period-instrument survey at Carnegie Hall was a reintroduction to some of the world’s most ...