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, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - 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 ...

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the complete Beethoven Symphonies, recorded in Frankfurt. This cycle of Beethoven Symphonies and Overtures was recorded in ...

Sometimes rating orchestras and conductors seems like a riddle as mysterious as the Sphinx. This month on Symphony @ 7, I'm featuring orchestras and conductors on Bachtrack's list of the top-ten for ...

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 ...