Tis the season of the 9th symphonies. It’s occuring at all levels of the classical music world. The Berlin Philharmonic is ...

Last Friday night, the New York Philharmonic welcomed 2005 with a performance of the Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven. We drop in on that New Year's Eve performance at Avery Fisher Hall to hear the ...

A 19th-century print depicting the premiere of the Ninth; and Schiller, author of the famous ode (Bridgeman Images) No symphony has been more widely discussed, or been a greater divider of musical ...

“He wrote very instrumentally,” said mezzo-soprano Abigail Nims, who will be featured in the alto part in the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9 ...

Are performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 cursed in Columbus? The German composer’s 1824 masterpiece is best-known for its magisterial “Ode to Joy” choral section ...

Despite his deteriorating hearing, though, Beethoven persevered with writing this mammoth symphony. Encouraged, no doubt, by his status as the composer of the moment, he penned a colossal work. But, ...

Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is so massive, we can't fit it all into one hour. Today, we start wrapping up our series on Christoph Eschenbach, Beethoven and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

A 19th-century print depicting the premiere of the Ninth; and Schiller, author of the famous ode (Bridgeman Images) No symphony has been more widely discussed, or been a greater divider of musical ...