What is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say? It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in 1888 when setting to work on what would become his famed Symphony No 5.

It’s got a lot of lovely and interesting music on it,” says Lou Kosma. “It has some of the old chestnuts. It has a Vermont ...

Luisi must have been right on Beethoven’s markings for the Fifth’s first two movements — the first edgy, bristling with ...

The night’s post-intermission sampling of Ravel and Stravinsky delivered their own fireworks, though of a somewhat more ...

This weekend, the Spokane Symphony ... pieces of music ever written,” Lowe said. “I wanted to put a real masterpiece next to those completions so you can see this is what real Beethoven ...

I’ve written about the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony before. It’s one of the masterworks of the classical repertoire, alongside the great symphonies of Beethoven ... where the Sun-Times music critic ...

A 2011 study claiming that Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Ligeti's Atmospheres destroyed cancer cells was debunked. The research, published in Noise & Health in 2013, suggested music might interfere ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Albany Symphony Orchestra When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Length: Two hours, one intermission Beethoven’s Symphony No ...

But the fact remains that the revered maestro was, to date, the only BSO music director to lead all nine Beethoven symphonies in order at Symphony Hall—back in 1927. Though Thursday’s opening ...