The complete piano concertos by Beethoven, performed by pianist Jayson Gillham, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Carter. This cycle – the first in twenty years recorded with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly than most biographies, in “Beethoven Variations.” By Anthony ...

A Welsh branch of the fast-food chain will soon start piping in the music of Beethoven, in a bid to tackle antisocial behaviour. Frequenters of a branch of McDonald’s in Wales will soon have a ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, we’re still not sure whether our brains evolved specifically to process music, or music happened to make use of neural pathways that had developed for other reasons.

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to ignore, as far as possible, celebrations of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, which fell last month. The uncontested ...

It happened last week with Steven Isserlis in Bach, and last night Alina Ibragimova sent high voltage shooting through the body with the very first gesture of Janáček’s Violin Sonata, joined in ...