During 1809 and 1810, Beethoven composed both the overture and the incidental music to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont, a Flemish nobleman who was executed as part of a ...
AN unheard Beethoven overture, which has been reconstructed by a Dutch composer using a computer program, will have its world premiere by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington next month. In ...
Beethoven depicts a Roman leader's transition from brutality to tenderness. Based on the story of Roman leader Gaius Marcius Coriolanus by Heinrich Joseph von Collin, rather than Shakespeare's version ...
(Toscanini, NBC Symphony; RCA Victrola VIC-8000). Lots of the young bloods tend to pooh-pooh Toscanini’s taut, no-nonsense approach. but anyone knowing of a more intense and exciting Beethoven package ...
We don’t usually feature BBC Music recordings in this slot because the BBC does a grand job of marketing its own products. But this disc, Vol 24 no 2, which comes with the BBC Music Magazine, has many ...