Beethoven Archive

  Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete) The Beethoven symphonies: all nine of them amazing masterworks, all nine have been performed countless times. Still, there are conductors who can recreate these symphonies in such …

  Gustavo Dudamel. I enjoyed listening to “The European Concert” DVD yesterday. In that recording, Gustavo Dudamel leads the Berlin Philharmonic in works by Brahms, Haydn, and Beethoven. The concert is presented in the old …

  Pianist Lang Lang. While I have not seen him in a live concert, my sense is that Lang Lang is not only a sensitive musician, but he also has an exciting stage presence. I …

    Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Volume 4. This CD is of particular interest because the performers combined the first quartet from Beethoven’s early Op. 18, with one of the last quartets that the Master …

  Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart and Beethoven. What I experience in this recording is that all the performers are equal before the composition, equal before the composer, and before the mysteries of the score; this …