There is no other cadenza; indeed, Beethoven orders his soloists not to improvise one. The slow movement, in the surprising key of B major (about as far tonally from E flat as it’s possible to ...

Here’s a guide to the 2025 Bach Festival, the 90th. It’s a double celebration this year as John Sinclair marks 35 years as ...

8 and 9, and like the two others I attended, the house was packed on Friday afternoon. Beethoven has mass appeal; for newcomers, the symphonies are a perfect introduction to the orchestral world.

Complete cycles of the Beethoven symphonies aren’t for the faint of heart. Just ask Lorin Maazel, whose 1988 traversal of the set included a respirator in the dressing room—just in case. Then again, ...

In the grand setting of the 2025 Amadeus, Amadeus Festival in Hamburg, Jordi Savall delivered a performance of Mozart’s “Great Mass in C Minor,” (K.427) that stood as a testament to ... to adapt ...

I attended a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.3 at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. Gustavo Dudamel conducted ...

it's been some time since we've had much in the way of a major update. 2023's N7 Day (or November 7) brought us some new info for the next Mass Effect - well sort of. Over the course of a few ...

Gisborne Choral Society is to present Mozart's Mass in C Minor at St Andrew's Church on April 6 and is looking for new voices to join its regulars. So begins a letter from Gisborne Choral Society ...

REVIEW BY Richard Amey. Worthing Symphony Orchestra concert at the Assembly Hall, leader Julian Leaper, conductor John Gibbons, piano Jeneba Kanneh-Mason.

Beethoven is one of classical music’s titans, looming over whole swathes of musical activity even up to the present day. The set of pieces he produced in the last fifteen years of his life in ...

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