Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: ‘Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg ...
It looks like Mozart's hair is worth more than Beethoven's. A lock of Mozart's hair sold for 35,000 pounds ($53,400) on Thursday, while strands of Beethoven's hair went for 8,124 pounds ($12,400), ...
A stern expression and messy hair.The Beethoven we imagine is inevitably the figure of a grumpy, great composer.However, even that Beethoven naturally had a time when he was a small boy sitting at the ...
Connections abound in the world of music. Some were made the hard way, like the 250-mile hike the young Johann Sebastian Bach undertook to get to meet the doyen of the day, Dietrich Buxtehude. Others ...
Interestingly, my two favorite concerts, thus far in the 2024-2025 Jacobs Master Works Series at the San Diego Symphony, have been dominated by pieces from the classical period of music. Obviously, ...
On March 21 and 22, Boston Baroque presented a program of Mozart’s “Symphony No. 35 in D Major (“Haffner”),” two Mozart arias performed by soprano Erin Morley, and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 2 in D ...