NEW YORK – For Sir Simon Rattle, Beethoven was, of course, brilliant. And perhaps crazy. How much of the composer’s creativity was tied to his loss of hearing? “If he had not been so cut off from the ...

Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies with their chief conductor are always a milestone in the artistic work of the Berliner Philharmoniker. So it was with Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, ...

Simon Rattles BeethovenSir Rattle is back to talk with Fred Child about Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Then we hear movements 3, 4 and 5 of the Symphony No. 9, with Rattle conducting the Vienna ...

From an all-Beethoven residency week, hear the storied Berlin Philharmonic play the profound Sixth and witty Eighth with conductor Simon Rattle. Why do Beethoven's symphonies remain so appealing? It's ...

Time was when a recording of the Beethoven symphonies was a rite of passage for conductors above a certain rank. Felix Weingartner made the first cycle in the 1930s (Naxos Records is in the process of ...

The work is utterly obscure - not a single one of the musicians this evening had performed it before - but it’s large-scale and ambitious, with plenty of opportunities to shine, especially for the ...

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