How are the Black Keys and Beethoven alike? They both had the low-down dirty blues. JK! They both compose(d) music for two instruments! You’ve heard his symphonies. Now hear cellist Norman Fischer – ...

Beethoven: The Last Three Piano Sonatas with the Hsu siblings: Ashley Hsu (Piano’15); Andrew Hsu (Piano ’13 and Composition ’15); and Daniel Hsu (Piano). Andrew and Daniel came to Curtis in 2008, ...

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer. Marking the 250th anniversary of ...

Part of Quest for Joy. “Quest for Joy,” the centerpiece of WQXR's Beethoven celebration, is a four-part series conceived, curated and hosted by conductor and MacArthur “Genius” Marin Alsop. In each ...

Part of Quest for Joy. “Quest for Joy,” the centerpiece of WQXR's Beethoven celebration, is a four-part series conceived, curated and hosted by conductor and MacArthur “Genius” Marin Alsop. In each ...

Beethoven is a towering figure in classical music, beloved by the musical profession. At the same time, it is important to engage with the full diversity and range of his admirers in the 21st century.

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Oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns take centre stage today in Beethoven's early masterpiece, the Octet in E-flat. Brace yourself, you're also going to hear his patriotic song, Germania, considered ...

Go inside the mind of Beethoven as Scott Yoo seeks to make a recording of his music. Go inside the mind of a genius as host Scott Yoo and fellow musicians undertake a recording of Beethoven's most ...

What Can a Symphony Be? 5/5 Donald Macleod and John Eliot Gardiner discuss Beethoven’s epic, final Ninth Symphony.

Episode three. Beethoven The Rising Star. From 1799 to 1800 Beethoven was composing and completing a number of works, including a septet, a symphony, and also a set of piano sonatas. During this ...