Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. The normally sanguine Leila ...

Can a historically informed performance of music written 200 years ago deliver an entirely authentic sound experience given the absence of recordings? Obviously not. Then again, historical replication ...

John Eliot Gardiner will lead his period-instrument Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique in Beethoven’s nine symphonies in five concerts at Carnegie Hall, from Feb. 19-24, before performances in ...

Ahead of performances with Insula orchestra in February, the South Korean pianist talks about taking inspiration from Beethoven’s harmony, early pianos, and making musical choices that are maximally ...

While earning a master’s degree in piano at the Peabody Institute, Matthew Bengtson learned about early keyboard instruments — including the fortepiano popular during the time of Mozart and Beethoven.

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Beethoven always seems to ...

Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...

THERE is upon record a remark of Mozart — probably the greatest musical genius that ever lived — to this effect: that, if few had equalled him in his art, few had studied it with such persevering ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Beethoven at 250 The conductor John Eliot Gardiner talks about a life listening to and performing the world’s most-played symphonies. John Eliot Gardiner rehearsing Beethoven’s ...