Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is in many ways the ne-plus-ultra of the orchestra literature. Not only does it require more extensive instrumental resources than was normal for the period, it draws in a ...
Samson Tsoy: Clean, eager playing overlooks what’s most important in Beethoven’s final piano sonatas
The last of Friday’s three piano events at St John’s Priory is given by Samson Tsoy and devoted to the final three piano sonatas by Beethoven. Tsoy is a very capable performer well equipped to meet ...
Even when he does things that are interpretatively questionable, there is always a wonderful purity about his playing that separates him from the rest. Lewis’s fourth national tour with Musica Viva ...
Last year the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes embarked on an intensive project devoted to the five Beethoven piano concertos. The rubric he's given it - "The Beethoven Journey" - may be a little grandiose, ...
Ludwig van Beethoven came on the heels of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn. Those great composers had reached the peak of their expression, and music — all arts, in fact — needed to move along ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Explore the music, life and times of the composer who changed culture. No composer left a mark on music quite like Ludwig van Beethoven. He took the ...
Some years ago, I was stopped at a traffic light and heard Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 on the radio. It dawned on me (after many times listening and playing it in orchestras on the violin) that ...
When Ludwig van Beethoven’s magisterial 9th Symphony premiered in 1824, the composer had to be turned around to see the audience cheering — he could not hear the audience’s rapturous applause.
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