3 through 9 enjoy special ... for that finale survive, but no “completed” version of the score has yet achieved widespread acceptance.) Even in its tripartite form, the symphony typically ...

The small forces, based on between 26 and (in No 9) 31 strings ... above all in the finale, a Wordsworthian sense ‘of something far more deeply interfused’. The first movement is delightfully springy, ...

Energetic young composer Klaus Mäkelä presents an electrifying version of Ludwig van Beethoven's masterpiece Symphony no. 9 for the 200th anniversary of its premiere. Go to search Arte in English in ...

Written when Beethoven was almost completely deaf, Symphony No. 9 received enthusiastic applause during its premiere in Vienna in 1824. The finale, Ode To Joy, scored for choir and soloists ...

In his 14 seasons as concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, David Coucheron has performed Beethoven’s music ... (Performances of Symphony No. 9 are slated for the fall.) ...

That was an exciting Beethoven Fifth Symphony. Leading the Dallas Symphony ... time of it had Luisi favored a lighter touch). The finale is actually marked a little slower than the scherzo ...

In Berlin, the finale seemed driven ... the Italian school of Beethoven interpretation. In these vibrant Rome performances he achieves an intensity of effect his hero Furtwängler just might have ...