The European Central Bank is seeking a new design for euro banknotes, with possible subjects including great cultural figures like German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, or birds and rivers. The first ...

Ludwig was partial to an alcoholic beverage too. Laura Tunbridge, author of the biography Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, notes that his doctors did recommended that he cut back, “which is ...

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each ...

European Central Bank is considering European cultural figures or rivers and birds on the front of its next series of euro banknotes ...

After listening to pianist Jon Batiste’s most recent record album, Blues, for the umpteenth time, I reveled in the fact that this is “easy listening” music that could provide the soundtrack for the ...

The notes, phrases and movements of the “Tenth Symphony,” on the other hand, are uniformly, and sometimes infuriatingly unrelated to one another, producing a pervading sense of meaninglessness.

Luisi must have been right on Beethoven’s markings for the Fifth’s first two movements — the first edgy, bristling with ...

After a three-month absence, the Sedona Symphony returned to the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Feb. 2, with its ...

This significant Beethoven undertaking, the ASO explained in program notes, was to occur in 2020, Beethoven’s 250th anniversary; that original plan would have seen the ASO and ASO chorus ...