When we finally see the return of concerts, shared experiences by full audiences, everyone together, the moment will be less for fireworks than for thanksgiving. Let us begin, then, with Beethoven as ...

From NPR News, I'm Robert Siegel. And as I prepare to leave ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in a couple of weeks, I've been asked to replay an old favorite story. Well, this one is from 2003. It's about an old ...

Even for a Grammy Award-winning group, playing all 17 Beethoven quartets in live concert is an act of daring. Takács Quartet likes a challenge. They were four musicians in a small room, just back from ...

It’s tempting to feel sorry for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Hidden away amid the Fifth (the most famous opening four notes in the history of classical music, the Sixth (how could anyone fail to love ...

The Beethoven House in the western German city of Bonn has purchased an important original manuscript by composer Ludwig van Beethoven with the help of public and private donors. The Cultural ...

She has upped the stakes with Beethoven Opus 130, the centerpiece of her current two-week season at the Joyce. Matthew Dibble in Beethoven Opus 130 by Twyla Tharp. And it certainly doesn’t need to be ...

On the surface, Mel Comberiati and Brendan Ryan make an unlikely pair of sleuths: a passionate professor of music and his former student, a composer of classical music. What they share is a deep love ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Theater Review | New Jersey By Naomi Siegel Four empty chairs; four music stands awaiting scores; four professional musicians, bathed in spotlights, ...

Camerata Pacifica presents landmark works for solo piano by Beethoven and Chopin as well as a Mozart tour de force for ...