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Richard Fairman selects his must-read titles
Pensive playing touches hidden depths and stretches the music for expressive effect
Two biographies look beyond the composer’s reputation as a tragic genius to explore a story of patrons, lovers, hard work and luck
New release aims to look at some of the less-familiar composers who lived interwoven lives with the musical genius
The image of the composer as a scowling genius tormented by deafness may have been exaggerated
Beethoven’s story of incarceration and liberation is given a new poignancy in an age of social distancing
Three leading musicians show off their personalities in a new recording for Beethoven 250
Teodor Currentzis’s Russia-based orchestra played a vivacious programme of Beethoven symphonies
The composer-conductor and orchestra reach the midpoint of their Beethoven cycle
The pianist’s thought-provoking programme juxtaposed Debussy with Schumann and Beethoven
The Russian pianist performed a programme of Beethoven and Rachmaninov
The performance has fire and urgency but also introspection of a deep-toned, rather public kind
Martha Argerich partners with Seiji Ozawa and the Mito Chamber Orchestra; Simon Rattle makes rarely heard items rub shoulders with old favourites
A celebratory evening at the Philharmonie Berlin was a show of power as much as a musical performance
James MacMillan’s ‘A European Requiem’ was followed by a pell-mell Ninth Symphony
This Mostly Mozart concert was in fact mostly Beethoven and Schubert but Edward Gardner took it all in his stride
This year’s season kicked off with Beethoven, Adams — and a politically pointed encore
Thomas Adès launches his Beethoven cycle with an intriguing juxtaposition
There was much to admire in the Russian pianist’s recital, but not much to love
Everyone gesticulated with gusto in Jürgen Flimm’s revived production of Beethoven’s opera
An insider’s guide to the city by Dominique Meyer, director of the State Opera House
András Schiff stretches the classical style to embrace shades of the fortepiano and a razor-sharp humour
Explosive performances of Rebel, Milhaud and John Adams at the Royal Festival Hall
String Quartet No 2 is a paean to Beethoven, but works best when Adams shines through
An eclectic recital of songs in which composers worked with languages not their own
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