Japanese-English classical pianist Mitsuko Uchida, conductor Andris Nelsons, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offered the ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” is one of the first songs I learned to play on the violin. I’ll never forget the elation I felt playing the iconic fourth movement of his Ninth Symphony ...

Uchida’s rendition didn’t quite start on the right foot. After playing only a few notes of the solo opening phrase, she ...

Hearing Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony – just that ... A joy because the performance by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras was everything one could wish from mortal musicians; a ...

Elizabeth Alker introduces an afternoon of great music-making including Hungarian born pianist András Schiff with the fourth in this week's cycle of Beethoven piano concertos ...

The 1808 concert included two symphonies, No. 5 and No. 6 ("Pastoral"), the Fourth Piano ... rolled into one hopelessly lengthy one. The obvious question is why did Beethoven set it up in this ...