At his lecture prior to Saturday’s Spokane Symphony performance, Music Director and Conductor James Lowe was joined on the stage of the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox by Grant Erickson, CEO of ...

For a while there, it looked like Mother Nature and some uninvolving musical patches would put a damper on the Aspen Music Festival’s sold-out finale Sunday, a program that concluded with Beethoven’s ...

A funny thing about Beethoven, music and politics. He was deeply engaged by the promise and disappointment of Napoleon and intended to dedicate his Symphony No. 3 to the French leader — until he ...

The Elias Quartet ran a year-long Beethoven project about a decade ago, which resulted in an informative website, and a string quartet cycle at the Wigmore Hall, which was released the house label. In ...

There’s a line not long into the first act of Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven which strikes me as especially profound, just before we hear the great German composer’s Sonata Pathetique: “sound is ...

If asked to name my three favorite sounds, I’d choose waves crashing against the rocky shoreline of Lake Superior, wind blowing through a boreal forest, and the section of the finale of Beethoven’s ...

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 ...