Michael Gordon was commissioned by the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Germany, to write a piece. And he came up with a piece that he calls quite simply and appropriately, Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh ...

Bonn is the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven, and as such has devoted itself to the ... one of the most spectacular Buddhist temples in Thailand. The Roskilde Music Festival is one of the biggest ...

Judged in terms of name recognition, Ludwig Van Beethoven is almost certainly the best-known composer of classical music in ...

And for the first time in the history of the HSO and its predecessors in Hawaii, all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies are being presented in a single festival. “To my knowledge it has never been ...

The final program of the BSO’s cycle featured Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, and like the two others I attended, the house was ...

In fact, two of the works on the program were conventional, as they were both by Beethoven: the Overture to his ballet, “The Creatures of Prometheus” (1801), and his Symphony No. 3 in E-flat ...

With this final program of the Beethoven Festival, Andris Nelsons sets himself firmly and memorably in that tradition with stellar performances of Beethoven’s Eighth and Ninth, winding up a cycle that ...

It is rare for Beethoven’s Third Symphony to end up overshadowed by any other work programmed with it, let alone the composer’s own first two symphonies, but such was the case Saturday night at ...