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Beethoven

Classical CD Reviews: A Roundup of Beethoven Symphonies

Evaluations of a smorgasbord of Beethoven symphony recordings.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Akademie für Alte Music Berlin, Beethoven, Britten Sinfonia, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gerald Barry, Harmonia Mundi, MusicAeterna, Pablo Heras-Casado, Signum Classics, Sony Classical, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Ades, Zürcher Sing-Akademie

Classical CD Reviews: Lars Vogt plays Beethoven, James Ehnes plays Walton, Denis Kozhukhin plays Ravel & Gershwin, Francesca Dego plays Paganini & Wolf-Ferrari

Superb discs from pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Francesca Dego, pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and violinist James Ehnes on the viola.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beethoven, Chandos, Denis Kozhukhin, Deutsche Grammophon, Francesca Dego, James Ehnes, Lars Vogt, Ondine, Paganini & Wolf-Ferrari, Pentatone, Ravel & Gershwin, Walton

Concert Review: Cantata Singers Perform “Missa solemnis”

This performance was far more than special and crazily beautiful — it was extraordinary.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beethoven, Cantata Singers, David Hoose, Missa solemnis

Commentary: 2017-18 Orchestral, Opera, and New Music Season Preview

Some institutions’ offerings aren’t as challenging as they could be, but there’s a healthy balance between the familiar and new.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: A Far Cry, and Brahms Society Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Bach, Beethoven, Boston Baroque, Boston New Music Festival, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Boston-Musica-Viva, Celebrity-Series, Center for New Music, Collage New Music, Guerilla Opera, Handel and Haydn Society, Lexington Symphony, NEC orchestras, New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

Rethinking the Repertoire #10 — Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Frieze”

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze is, without a doubt, one of the major symphonic scores of our century.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Beethoven, Frieze, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Ninth Symphony, Rethinking the Repertorie

CD and Concert Review: Harnoncourt conducts Beethoven (Sony Classical), Bernard Haitink conducts Mahler

Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s final recording is the conductor at his best. Bernard Haitink helmed a great performance of Mahler’s Symphony no. 1.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beethoven, Bernard Haitink, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sony Classical

Fuse Concert Review: Mozart and Beethoven from the Handel & Haydn Society

Working within the forms perfected by Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven early compositions managed to say some things that remain compelling to hear.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beethoven, Handel & Haydn Society, Mozart, The String Trio in C minor

Classical Album Review: Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies nos. 5 and 7

This is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beethoven, Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Reference Recordings

Concert Review: The Borromeo String Quartet @ 25 — Sublime

No other concerts I’ve heard this summer can come close to the thrill I experienced hearing the Borromeo Quartet.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Bartok, Beethoven, Borromeo Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, Isabella-Stewart-Gardner-Museum, Schubert

Classical Music Feature: Listening to a Legend

Alfred Brendel was the first pianist to record all of Beethoven’s piano music in the 1960s and made many world tours with the 32 sonatas, which seemed like old, close friends. At times he would simply play a snippet here and there to illustrate a point, yet never long enough to satisfy this listener. I […]

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Alfred Brendel, Beethoven, Classical Music, piano, Sonatas, Susan Miron

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