John Eliot Gardiner will lead his period-instrument Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Beethoven’s nine symphonies in five concerts at Carnegie Hall, from Feb. 19-24, before performances in ...
Maybe you know Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by heart. But you might never have heard it like this. On Friday, the Mercury ensemble will take the beloved symphony, long the property of thundering ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Norrington in 1996 - Ken Hively Sir Roger Norrington, who has died aged 91, was a leading figure in the period-instrument ...
The Smithsonian Academy Orchestra presents works by Haydn and Beethoven on period instruments at The NMNH’s Baird Auditorium on Saturday, October 12th at 7pm. Conducted by Kenneth Slowik, the SAO ...
The performance was given on period instruments, still more the exception than the rule for Beethoven chamber music. For the first half, the Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Melnikov played a fortepiano ...
Classical music fans are used to hearing the keyboard music of Mozart and Beethoven performed on massive, seven-octave concert pianos, which were first introduced in the middle of the 19th century.