Winter Festival Picks
Beethoven 250 Festival Nov. 22 to Dec. 13 The Royal Conservatory of Music presents a series of concerts as a homage to Beethoven in late…
Browsing: Beethoven
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Landmark Recordings
In the space of a single-page survey, it would be impossible to give a comprehensive overview of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on record, so we will…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Franz Schmidt – 4th symphony, &c. (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has issued an oblong boxed set of its inaugural concerts with music director Kirill Petrenko. The new chief’s performances of Tchaikovsky’s…
For the MSO opener, a masked ball
Not your usual opening night. Small crowd. No mingling. No buzz. Except insofar as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Labadie proved itself equal on…
Yannick and OM put spotlight on Beethoven — and Montreal
The familiar setting is Bourgie Hall, festooned with microphones, lamps, music stands and cleared of audience chairs. Yannick Nézet-Séguin stands on a podium near the…
NAC Orchestra Kicks off the Season with Beethoven Festival, Performs all 9 Symphonies
The annual FOCUS Festival presents the Beethoven edition, a 10-day immersive classical music experience with concerts and free events such as musical salons, piano marathons,…
Austin Symphony’s “Feast of Voices” Imaginative Programming
“FEAST OF VOICES” Beethoven-Bruckner: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 “Pathétique” (lst movement) Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi Mahler-Britten: Symphony No. 3 (2nd…
Tafelmusik to Release Complete Beethoven Symphonies on September 22, 2017
“Weil and his [Tafelmusik] players convince us that Beethoven can sound as radical in the 21st century as he must have done in the 19th”…
Marc-André Hamelin at Le Festival de Lanaudière: Change of Program
Joliette, June 13, 2017 – Le Festival de Lanaudière announces a change of program for Marc-André Hamelin’s recital on Friday, July 21 at 8 p.m. at the Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay in…
Unveil of the 2017-18 OSM Season : Over 60 Programs and 105 Concerts as Striking evidence of its Diversity
MAHLER, BEETHOVEN, MOZART AND VERDI HIGHLIGHT THE OSM SEASON WITH SUBLIME WORKS Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” opens the season on a grand scale A…
