There’s such freshness and vigour here to challenge more familiar, pedestrian readings of Beethoven’s overtures, plus the real benefit of rarities such as Zur Namensfeier making this a must-have ...

Yet another set of Beethoven symphonies – meaning yet another set of contentious theories about performance style in general and Beethoven’s metronome markings in particular? Fortunately, the level of ...

Beethoven OvertureIn concert at the Krannert Center on the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign campus, we hear Sinfonia da Camera play Beethoven. Conductor Ian Hobson leads a performance of the ...

The Texas Guitar Quartet took upon itself the daunting task of arranging and recording one of Beethoven's most popular and dramatic orchestral overtures, the Egmont Overture. The arrangement was made ...

Beethoven didn't get his Egmont Overture finished in time for the first performance. Or the second... or the third. Finally, he finished in time for the fourth performance of the Goethe play, on June ...

AN unheard Beethoven overture, which has been reconstructed by a Dutch composer using a computer program, will have its world premiere by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington next month. In ...

It came as a revelation when, five years ago, David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra - not then regarded as one of the world's prime recording orchestras - completed a cycle of the Beethoven ...

It's possible nowadays to get a cycle of the Beethoven symphonies to suit every musical taste - from the traditional big-band performances on the modern instruments of leading symphony orchestras, to ...

(Die) Geschöpfe des Prometheus, '(The) Creatures of Prometheus', Movements: Overture Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen Paavo Järvi, Conductor Fidelio, Movements: ...