When we finally see the return of concerts, shared experiences by full audiences, everyone together, the moment will be less for fireworks than for thanksgiving. Let us begin, then, with Beethoven as ...
Tickets to this series include a pre-show reception which took place inside one of Green-Wood’s modern chapels. This was a pretty casual affair with the tone (at least at the performance I was at) ...
Stephen Johnson is the guest of the Sowerby Music in Yorkshire for an exploration of one of the pinnacles of the repertory, Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132. This is one of the so ...
String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: I. Assai sostenuto - Allegro String Quartet No. 15 in A Major, Op. 132: II. Allegro ma non tanto String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132: III. Molto adagio ...
Technology and Beethoven string quartets combine to tackle one of The Master's most revered works, with the Sacconi Quartet. At last year's Bristol Proms, the Sacconi Quartet took a pioneering look at ...
Beethoven is the first composer that most string quartets turn to when they set out on an extended journey. His works in the genre are the zenith of creative accomplishment and expressive sagacity, ...
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In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...