Beethoven Archive

Salzburg Festival Opening Concerts The Salzburg Festival, held at Mozart’s birth city every year, is one of the most prestigious in the world. For a long time now, any major artist strives to be invited …

Berlin’s Beethoven! Om Wednesday night, August 28, 2013, I once again listened to the wonderful collection of recorded concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), via its amazing website, the Digital Concert Hall. This and …

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto: Performances compared. I am reading a tiny volume about the life and art of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. And this little book includes a CD, which contains some amazing recordings of Menuhin’s music. …

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone. In this CD by Christian Gerhaher and his long-term pianist Gerold Huber, we hear songs by Haydn and Beethoven, juxtaposed by Lieder composed by Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. What all four …

The Gift of Music. Yesterday I watched a great film about one of my favorite pianists, Russian-born Evgeny Kissin. Naturally, this DVD was filled with great performances of the music of Beethoven, Haydn, Franz Schubert, …