CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Calder Quartet concluded its two-year, four-concert residency at Transformer Station Thursday with a short but impressive program presenting two works requiring intense ...

You probably recognize the opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Those four insistent notes. There’s a symphony by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky that starts with the same driving intensity, so intense ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Pierre-Laurent Aimard juxtaposes the master with other troublemaking composers “so that we understand better what Beethoven meant.” ...

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to ignore, as far as possible, celebrations of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, which fell last month. The uncontested ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly than most biographies, in “Beethoven Variations.” By Anthony ...