Ludwig van Beethoven News

The National Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2023–2024 season led by Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and incoming Executive Director Jean Davidson.

Apple today announced Apple Music Classical, a brand-new standalone app designed specifically for classical music. Apple Music Classical makes it quick and easy to find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalog with fully optimized search, and listeners can enjoy the highest audio quality available and experience many classical favorites in a whole new way with immersive spatial audio.

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra has announced an exceptional performance of Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy,' featuring Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 paired with innovative works by contemporary composers Mason Bates and Carter Pann, on Saturday, April 1, 2023, at 7:30 p.m., at the Morris Performing Arts Center.

BSO Artistic Partner from 2018 to 2021, composer/conductor/pianist Thomas Adès returns to Symphony Hall to lead a program featuring the Inferno Suite and Paradiso from his recent composition The Dante Project, a three-part ballet score from 2021 based on Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Italian epic Commedia.

The Kendall Square Orchestra will present its fourth annual Symphony for Science on Sunday June 4th at Symphony Hall in Boston. 

The Circus Arts Conservatory (CAC) and Key Chorale will come together again for this year's production of Cirque des Voix: Circus of the Voices, a one-of-a-kind performing arts experience. Shows will take place March 10-12, 2023.

Con la serenidad y maestría que solo el talento y los años han podido cultivar, la tarde del viernes 25 de febrero, el pianista Manuel Delaflor sorprendió a su público con un concierto en el que recorrió obras de los grandes pianistas del barroco, clasicismo y romanticismo, en el contexto del ciclo El arte del piano en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes (PBA).

Heredera de grandes pianistas de la historia universal y recordada como una prodigio del teclado, cuya versatilidad abarcaba tanto el repertorio barroco, contemporáneo y mexicano, el trabajo de quien, además, fuera la primera mujer en dirigir el Conservatorio Nacional de Música (CNM), no es tan conocido. Sin embargo, fue piedra angular en la difusión de importantes compositores de nuestro país, empezando por Carlos Chávez. 

A favorite piece of music is like an old friend. Always there for you, brings you comfort, and lifts your spirits. On Saturday, February 25th, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra is rediscovering some old friends and making new ones at their classic concert, Hidden Treasures.

Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute (PYOMI) presents several program divisions of their nationally respected music organization at the 2023 Showcase. The emcee is WRTI 90.1 Radio Host Kevin Gordon.

One Found Sound, a conductorless orchestra now celebrating its tenth anniversary, has announced the launch of its most ambitious initiative to date: The Herbert Franklin Mells Project, a five-year undertaking that includes the preparation, performance and recording of the composer's large orchestral works written from 1938 to 1945.

Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Leonidas Kavakos: These three extraordinary artists come together for a matinee of musical trios. Program includes works by Beethoven.

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On Saturday, February 4 at 8pm and Sunday, February 5 at 4pm, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) welcomes back star pianist Inon Barnatan to Princeton for performances of Johannes Brahms' monumental Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83.

On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 7:45pm, the Lafayette String Quartet will perform the world premiere of Vivian Fung's fiery String Quartet No. 5 'Spiraling' at the Philip T. Young Recital Hall at the University of Victoria.

The Metropolitan Opera, in association with Lincoln Center and the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, will present a concert to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of its neighbor.

The Taiwan Philharmonic - known as the National Symphony Orchestra in its homeland - will be one of the first international orchestra to be presented by the New York Philharmonic in David Geffen Hall in their return to the United States for a national tour this spring, led by new Music Director Jun Märkl.

Con un atractivo programa de conciertos virtuales y charlas con creadores y musicólogos, la Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) inició 2022 con actividades en línea para mantener la cercanía con su público. 

The adventurous Beo String Quartet, noted for its sterling sound and experimental as well as classical performances will travel to California with two exciting programs.

The holidays are upon us and that means the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC (GMCW) is presenting their much-anticipated annual holiday musical present---an engaging package of song and dance, The Holiday Show, for the LGBTQ+ community (and, hopefully, for the larger DMV community as well).