Exploring Beethoven's Ninth: on your iPad

Martin Cullingford asks whether a new app from DG and Touch Press offers an insight into the future?

Live review: Northern Lights (SSO, Adès)

Sydney SO/Thomas Adès, Pieter Wispelwey
SOH Concert Hall, May 1

Live review: Andrew Davis Gala (Melbourne Symphony & Bryn Terfel)

Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, April 26.

Live review: Morgenstern Trio and Christopher Moore (Musica Viva)

City Recital Hall, Sydney, April 22.

Totally Terfel

On the eve of his Australian tour, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel chats intimately about Wagner, Verdi, viticulture and the NSW Golf Club.

Live Review: Musica Viva Festival (Beilman, Bezaly, Pacifica Quartet)

Benjamin Beilman dazzles in Brahms and Sharon Bezaly sparkles in Prokofiev while the Pacifica Quartet shine their light on Shostakovich.

Skin-deep classical music: tattoos of composers & singers

Classical music made flesh, from classically-trained Kat Von D's Beethoven portrait to Zombie Mozart.

Claudio Arrau: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms

Old-school pianism that doesn’t quite tell the whole story.

Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 (Bruggen)

In this outstanding Dutch cycle, Beethoven is the star.

Joyce Yang: A virtuoso pianist inspired by colour

Catching up with the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Competition as she heads to Australia.

Amour: The Film Soundtrack (Alexandre Tharaud)

Dishy French pianist Alexandre Tharaud makes his acting debut in Amour.

March issue of Limelight: Beethoven - Beyond the Symphonies

The new issue reveals how Beethoven poured his most intense emotions into music for his favourite instrument – the piano.

Death of an Orchestra: Orchestra Romantique's swan song

Thoughts on the premature demise of an ensemble whose grand dreams were dashed against the rocks of financial reality.

Stop, Repair, Prepare... State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

Pianists pop out of a Bechstein hidey-hole to play Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

"There's a hole in my piano... Oh, bother"

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy like you’ve never seen or heard it!

Valentina Lisitsa: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Pixelated pianist no more; a YouTube star in the real world.

Lang Lang: Complete Recordings 2000-2009

Long live Lang Lang – Almost a decade of pianistic flair all boxed up.

Lost Beethoven hymn receives its world premiere today

1820 work discovered alongside original sketches for Missa Solemnis.

Top Ten Glenn Gould moments captured on film

The eccentric pianist would have been 80 today. We celebrate with breathtaking footage of a genius at work.

The Top Twelve Trills in Classical Piano

Stunning videos of the most epic, thrilling trills in piano music from Beethoven to Debussy.

Bryn Terfel joins the MSO in Sir Andrew Davis' 2013 Gala

The Welsh bass-baritone will sing with the Melbourne Symphony in Davis' inaugural concert.

On the road with Paul Lewis

The British pianist's two-year Schubert world tour is giving him new insights into the composer.

Editor's Choices September 2012: listen to the best new CDs

Dudamel's energetic Eroica, Angela Hewitt's poetic Schumann, the Grigoryan bros and more.

JIMMY: Live in Brighton

Pianist James Rhodes plays (and talks) up a storm.

SCHUBERT: String Quartets Nos 13-15

Schubert’s Romantic masterpieces in pitch-perfect performances.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: his 12 finest moments in song

The baritone's classic performances captured on video: Schubert, Schumann, Bach and more.

Pianist Yundi is back with Deutsche Grammophon

Back from EMI, the Yellow Label's prodigal son will record Beethoven for his "homecoming".

Tokyo String Quartet calls it quits

The ensemble prepares to take their final bow after more than 40 years together.

Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Sydney Symphony

The SSO and Ashkenazy rehearse the Beethoven Violin Concerto with virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter for the first time.

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonatas, Impromptus (Paul Lewis)

Another win for Lewis: is this pianist the new voice of Schubert?

BEETHOVEN: The Symphonies; Overtures (Gewandhaus/Chailly)

This beautifully presented 5-CD set is a rather brilliant fusion of the old and the new.

Stephen Hough: the well-spoken, well-travelled pianist

The British pianist talks politics, blogs, bowler hats and trying his hand at composition.

Viennese paintings strike chord with music lovers

Classic FM's Graham Abbott explores Beethoven, Mahler and Schoenberg as illuminated in a new exhibition.

Joshua Bell named music director of the ASMF

American violin virtuoso to head London's iconic Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

CHOPIN: Études BEETHOVEN Sonata Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’; Liszt: Paganini Étude no.3 ‘La Campanella’ MUSTO Improvisation and Fugue (piano: Nobuyuki Tsujii)

Co-winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (with Haochen Zhang from China) blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii is a rising new talent of the keyboard.

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4; Piano Concerto in D minor (piano: Ronald Brautigam; Norrköping SO/Parrott)

In 1806, along with his Piano Concerto No. 4, Beethoven completed the Symphony No. 4 and the Razumovsky Quartets .

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas (piano: Steven Osborne)

Pianist Stephen Osborne reimagines Beethoven.

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 6, 13 (Artemis Quartet)

The cellist Eckart Runge once commented that his Artemis Quartet strives to bring music to life as if it had been written today.

BEETHOVEN Eroica Variations: Piano variations on themes by Haibel, Wranitzky, Salieri, Süssmeyr (piano: Ian Yungwook Yoo)

Naxos recordings and artist quality have improved since the recording industry’s “Little Engine That Could” sprang onto the scene just over 20 years ago.

BEETHOVEN Live in Vienna (piano: Lang Lang)

The two faces of piano’s superstar are on display.

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 2, 5,10 (violin: Alina Ibragimova, piano: Cédric Tiberghien)

These two musical kindred spirits continue to distinguish themselves in this second volume of their complete traversal of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas.

BRAHMS Symphony No 4 BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture (Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique; The Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner)

This CD is from a concert given in London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2008.

The Diabelli Challenge

Ten years after his award-winning Beethoven sonatas, Gerard Willems braves the composer’s pianistic Everest, the Diabelli Variations.

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Vol. 1 (Alina Ibragimova [v], Cédric Tiberghien [p])

These two artists enthralled Australian audiences last year ­- and no wonder, on the strength of these performances.

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, Op 125 Choral (London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus/Tennstedt)

Beethoven’s Ninth is a symphony very few conductors get entirely right.

BEETHOVEN Concertos for Piano: Nos. 1, 3 & 4 (piano: John O’Conor; LSO/Delfs)

Lacklustre recording of these signature concertos.

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol. 8 (piano: Andras Schiff)

There are few things in life which don’t begin to diminish with repeated experience.
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