It’s a puzzle, isn’t it, this symphony? When we think of Beethoven, we always think of music with great depth and profundity. So is it really possible that, after his Seventh Symphony and before his ...

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's most playful symphony, the Eighth, to reveal a mastery of the form and a work replete with as many radical ideas as many others he created. Show more The musical ...

Of all the nine symphonies, for me it is No 4 that is looking back a little bit to the earlier, Viennese, Classical style. It is more connected to the first two symphonies than to the Eroica. That’s ...

Led by Music Director Taichi Fukumura, the orchestra will perform Bartók’s spirited Romanian Folk Dances, Miklós Rózsa’s ...

It’s tempting to feel sorry for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Hidden away amid the Fifth (the most famous opening four notes in the history of classical music, the Sixth (how could anyone fail to love ...