The UK’s leading scholar on Beethoven has found that the famous opening of the Fifth Symphony began life with a totally different purpose... Classical connoisseur, and music novice alike will ...

Beethoven's output for cello and piano spanned his lifetime -- starting with the two sonatas he composed in 1796; two near ...

Did you know that this Classic 100 had the most entries composed by women ever: 11 works by seven different composers! ABC Classic's Ria Andriani took at look into this wonderful stat and the ...

What is the most popular classical music? Eight years ago Manhattan’s radio station WQXR (which plays no jazz) polled its listeners, found Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

Writing a warm if inevitably parti pris appreciation of Stephen Kovacevich’s nine-CD and 12-year project, producer John Fraser speaks of ‘an artist of almost self-punishing honesty and integrity’.

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After the formal strides forward in his Op. 26 Sonata (see Recital 6) and the 'sonate quasi fantasie' pair of Op. 27 (see Recital 3), Beethoven appears to step back again with his next work in the ...