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Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Our critics each choose a favourite recording from the past 12 months. If you’re after the perfect gift guide for Christmas, look no further! Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to 5 subscriber-only reviews per month Unlimited ac...

Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis Save Normal text size Advertisement No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethoven’s command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fier...

Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis Save Normal text size Advertisement No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethoven’s command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fier...

Ninth Symphony (the Choral Symphony), was used as the sign-off music for some 15 years on the dominant US evening news broadcast, The Huntley Brinkley Report, five nights a week on the NBC television network. The particular performance’s recording had been conducted by the redoubtable Arturo Toscanini back in 1942, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. (How many commercial television networks still have a resident orchestra these days, hey?) This was all back in a day when even a weekly shoot-�...

Beethovens Life, Liberty And Pursuit Of Enlightenment Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Two-hundred-fifty years ago, a musical maverick was born. Ludwig van Beethoven charted a powerful new course in music. His ideas may have been rooted in the work of European predecessors Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Josef Haydn, but the iconic German composer became who he was with the help of some familiar American values: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That phrase, f...

The contemporary relevance of Ludwig van Beethoven on the 250th anniversary of his birth Millions of people around the world continue to enjoy and enthuse over the work of Ludwig van Beethoven on the 250th anniversary of his birth, December 17, 1770. His music long ago broke through the narrow limits of European culture within which he lived and worked. It has emerged as a universal voice of humanity and has struck a chord among the younger generation thanks to the efforts of dedicated musician...

Happy birthday, Ludwig. The world had great plans to celebrate your 250th birth anniversary, but a minuscule virus put paid to all that. My reading marathon on Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) in his birth sestercentennial year continues to throw up the most fascinating trivia about him and his times. For example, I learned that he was beset by the same woes that bedevil the modern-day author. Beethoven was extremely fussy about which works of his got published, in what order, and by which publ...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jader Bignamini returns from Italy to conduct a program on Friday that will highlight works by Jessie Montgomery and Richard Strauss, and feature Beethovens Third Symphony, the celebrated "Eroica." The Detroit News caught up with Bignamini via Zoom to chat COVID-19 restrictions, having to travel without his family, and why the "Eroica" is a turning point in musical history. Youve been back home in Italy since September. When did you return to Detroit?...