The Chamber Orchestra Kremlin Jonathan A while ago I did a post on young and exciting talents and one of the people I mentioned was J...

Persimfans is one of the few orchestras which perform without a conductor. Judging from a short video documentary about them (link at botto...

Chee-Yun I usually make it a rule not to post a work unless all the movements are available (or at the very least the 1st movement) so wh...

Though I have posted a good chunk of my own sequenced versions of Beethoven's works arranged/transcribed for guitar, there are of course...

Helene Tysman Continued from yesterday, here is a selection of Beethoven's latter works as performed at the recent Rubinstein Competi...

The Arthur Rubinstein 13th International Piano Master Competition was recently held and most of the performances were uploaded to Youtube. ...

It was just a couple days ago that I snuck in a Richter performance of Beethoven's Piano Sontata 31 , so here's a more descriptive p...

Plain Dealer File :  "Spencer Myer, a native of North Ridgeville, won first prize Sunday in the New Orleans International Piano Com...

Not too long ago I featured Valentina Lisitsa's exquisite rendition of Fur Elise here .  Ms. Lisitsa has a huge and wonderful Youtube c...

The Vale of Clwyd "The Vale of Clwyd" (Welsh: Dyffryn Clwyd) is a folk song arranged by Beethoven as part of 26 Welsh Songs W...

Gustavo Dudamel's inaugural concert as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This performance took place at the Hollywood Bow...

Beethoven's 7th string quartet, Opus 59, No.1 ("Razumovsky" 1) has always been one of my favorites.  Composed at the height of...

B. Monument Robert Schumann was a big fan of Beethoven.  He composed his Fantasy Opus 17 as part of a fund raiser towards a Beethoven mon...

From Beethoven's early, "giddy" piano works to his last sublime piano achievements, with his most played piano work in the mix...

In 2009 pianist Roberta Pili gave a recital of the Beethoven's last 5 piano sonatas at Carnegie Hall . She repeated this performance i...

The theatrical mask contemplated by a putto on the Beethoven monument by Kaspar von Zumbusch (Vienna, 1880) commemorates Beethoven...

(Gustavo Dudamel taking flight) Symphonies 2 and 3 really ushered in the new age of modern music in my opinion. Symphony 2 is a breakne...

Even though it was recently revealed to me that Stephen Hawking is a big Beethoven fan , apparently another icon of 20th century genius felt...

(Cool poster courtesy http://gordon-whyte.livejournal.com/1137.html) Symphonies 1, 3, 5 and 8 are featured today from Frans Bruggen and...

At El Jardín de Belagua ("The Garden of Belagua") they hold regular chamber music concerts in the intimate setting of a very larg...