In his thrilling 1956 call to arms, Chuck Berry pictured classical music’s colossus spinning in his grave as the age of rock’n’roll dawned. “Roll over Beethoven,” he hollered, “and tell Tchaikovsky ...

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Documentary series that tells the life story of Beethoven in the context of the composer's own time and place, revealing a life following a very different trajectory to his art.

Also, “their throat is an open grave” has to be one of the most ... Rickenbacker’s (the son of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker) dismissal of Beethoven’s early works through Opus 52, and ...

With regard to the staging itself, one can see why it was and still is controversial; yet in a way that is a reason to go and ...

Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra: celebrating its 40th, & Matthew Kraemer's 10th as Music Director and Conductor ...

Rhiannon May (centre) plays Ludwig van Beethoven in the British Sign Language performance at the BBC Proms Conversations between Ludwig van Beethoven and his friends are being used for a British ...

Beethoven sweated for ten years writing Fidelio, his only opera. With its opening scene of domestic comedy and its conclusion ...

We use a lot of classical music for testing, with Claude Debussy standing out as one of our most listened-to composers.

New translations of novels by Alejo Carpentier portray the twin temptations of nostalgic renunciation and revolutionary ...

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, this documentary series focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer. Groomed for greatness by an ...