“Along with the Fifth Symphony, the Coriolan Overture is the most intensely dramatic and rhythmically propulsive of the orchestral works in Beethoven’s ‘C minor mood’. (William Kinderman) The acoustic ...

The San Diego Symphony put Beethoven and Brahms together on Friday night at Symphony Hall. The Beethoven was his Symphony No. 6: The Pastoral. The Brahms was his Piano Concerto No. 1. That second ...

When Nikolaus Harnoncourt died at 86 in March, music lost an important conductor, a deeply inquisitive mind and a powerful force for disruption of the status quo. Harnoncourt began his professional ...

Along Highway 13 toward the Caldecott Tunnel and Lafayette is a stretch so picturesque, with high rolling hills and rows of towering trees dressed in fog, that if you saw it in the rain, as I did ...

Imagine you're a teenager in Beijing in the 1960s and '70s, during the Cultural Revolution. Everything that's deemed Western and bourgeois is banned — so listening to a 78 rpm recording of Beethoven's ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — 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 ...

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