The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

Ludwig van Beethoven followed his percussive, brooding Fifth Symphony with an ode to nature. The piece bursts with idyllic passages, including sounds of a brook and a thunderstorm. Yet Symphony No. 6 ...

The major success of Andris Nelsons’ still brief career as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s music director must be his advocacy of the orchestral music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Certainly no BSO ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The composer died last month. But not before finishing his Sixth Symphony, which premiered on Friday in Cincinnati. By Joshua Barone ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra has released a new spatial audio recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 6, led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The recording is an Apple Music Classical ...

Beethoven, who will again be a significant presence in the San Diego Symphony’s just-announced 2012-13 Jacobs Masterworks series, means different things to different people. For the symphony’s ...

How will the San Diego Symphony follow up the most extensive and star-studded season in its 115-year history, let alone one that saw the orchestra return to its home at Jacobs Music Center last fall ...