The structure of incorporating a chorus into a symphony and using a text like "Ode to Joy" was groundbreaking at the time, ...

The community is invited to experience a monumental tour de force performance of Beethoven 9: An Ode To Joy, Hope & Community - the Opening Weekend of The Santa Barbara Symphony's 2023/24 Season.

Single ticket sales from 14 May (10am), including Thursday Nights & Afternoon Performances ...

(Die) Weihe des Hauses, '(The) Consecration of the House', Movements: Overture Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Gratulations-Menuett Thomas ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Thursday night performance of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony was a mix of old-fashioned monumentality and more streamlined modern approaches. One could quibble with some ...

Terms and conditions apply in each case, of course, and from the new Orfeo disc we can hear why the Vienna Symphony was considered the city’s first orchestra at the time: after periodic work with the ...

(Cluytens, Berlin Philharmonic; Seraphim S-60079). A trace of sugar here and there, but nevertheless the best bargain Ninth yet offered. Fine sound and a remarkably good vocal quartet: Gre ...