Beethoven Cycle News Today

We're taking a look back at KPR's 2023 Live Day, our annual dedication to classical music, celebrated with an entire day of live performances. In this installment, we take a closer look at The Opus 76 Quartet.

With respect to its sheer heft and alluring geometric design, Rachel Ellins' harp could claim its own category in an Art in Public Places exhibit.

One of the country’s leading chamber of music ensembles will be gracing the NIU campus with their musical presence. The Avalon String Quartet is a Chicago based ensemble that holds a residency at NIU’s School of Music. The Quartet will be performing on Monday at 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Boutell Memorial Concert...

It was love at first sight. Young, handsome, passionate, bright-eyed, enthusiastic. Gustavo Dudamel is that and so much more. We changed our seats from center…

Here are the top events happening in San Diego from Thursday, March 31 to Sunday, April 3

DACAMERA presents the world-renowned London-based Elias Quartet in Beethoven’s complete quartets, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear these works in chronological order over six concerts. Considered by many to be ...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...

Ariel Quartet: Beethoven Cycle, Part 3 Cost: $10 - $25 Characterized by its youth, brilliant playing, and soulful interpretations, the Ariel Quartet has quickly earned a glowing international reputation. Formed in Israel as teenagers at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance and celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2020–21, the Quartet was named recipient of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, granted by Chamber Music America in recognition of artistic achievement and ca...

3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque Pulcinella. View here.  6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Mark Steinberg, Marcy...