Unlike Ignaz Schuppanzigh, the quartet named after him has no cause to complain about the difficulties of playing Beethoven’s music. These artists take them in their stride, their technique virtually ...

Beethoven's symphony's form one of the most important bodies of work in musical history. The third, the fifth and the ninth get all the headlines and are generally the most well-loved, but the first ...

Over the next nine weeks, nine of the world's leading Beethoven conductors will each explore a Beethoven symphony. We begin with Sir Roger Norrington on Symphony No 1... The piece is dedicated to ...

Two acclaimed string quartets will share this season’s presentation of the Department of Music’s Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle. The Escher String Quartet will offer the cycle’s first three ...

Shostakovich completed his Seventh Quartet in March 1960, dedicating it to the memory of his first wife, who would have turned 50 in 1959. It's been claimed that he planned his Eighth Quartet, written ...

With his First Symphony Beethoven staked his claim as a rightful heir to the Classical symphonic tradition. After its premiere, at a typically gargantuan benefit concert in Vienna’s Burgtheater on 2 ...