Beethoven Archive

This new recording celebrates three anniversaries: The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the 20th birthday of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and the recording will be released 40 years after the legendary Triple Concerto recording made …

Beethoven composed his Fourth Piano Concerto in 1805 and early 1806 (it was probably completed by spring, for the composer’s brother offered it to a publisher on March 27). The first performance was a private …

On this recording, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley, well established as chamber-music partners, perform two of Beethoven’s greatest piano trios, the ‘Ghost’ and the ‘Archduke’. “Together, all three musicians have the quality that …

Beethoven composed his symphony #2 during the summer and fall of 1802 and conducted the first performance on April 5, 1803, in Vienna. The score calls for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and …

Beethoven waited to compose his first set of quartets, Op. 18, until he was nearly 30 because he knew they would be compared to the masterpieces of Haydn and Mozart. Less than ten years later, …