John Eliot Gardiner will lead his period-instrument Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique in Beethoven’s nine symphonies in five concerts at Carnegie Hall, from Feb. 19-24, before performances in ...
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. The normally sanguine Leila ...
Can a historically informed performance of music written 200 years ago deliver an entirely authentic sound experience given the absence of recordings? Obviously not. Then again, historical replication ...
While earning a master’s degree in piano at the Peabody Institute, Matthew Bengtson learned about early keyboard instruments — including the fortepiano popular during the time of Mozart and Beethoven.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The journey that Jordi Savall has made to the music of Beethoven has been long and patient. We are used to ...
A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Beethoven always seems to ...