A personal favourite of John Suchet's, Beethoven's Egmont Overture powerfully and beautifully tells the story of Count Egmont through Beethoven's exquisite music A personal favourite. A well known ...

Beethoven didn't get his Egmont Overture finished in time for the first performance. Or the second... or the third. Finally, he finished in time for the fourth performance of the Goethe play, on June ...

Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor (Simón) Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Venezuela (Die) Geschöpfe des Prometheus, '(The) Creatures of Prometheus', ...

The Overture gets this new studio Egmont off to the most promising of starts. The strings of the Munich Radio Orchestra may lack the last degree of transparency and finesse boasted by BR-Klassik’s ...

Two of Beethoven's great pieces on this album commemorating conductor Kurt Masur's 85th birthday. Drive Featured Album, 7 January 2013. Beethoven's Egmont Overture is one of his best-known works, but ...

Lust-filled, hell-bound lothario Don Giovanni comes to life in Mozart’s famed Overture, and Beethoven’s Egmont Overture offers a stirring journey from tragedy to triumph. Scotland so inspired ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Overture, Egmont (10m) Benjamin Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (9m) Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No.3 (Eroica) (30m) Beethoven is the defining figure of the ...

Monday evening at the Four Arts, The Palm Beach Symphony, under conductor Ramón Tebar, provided a rare treat — the complete incidental music to Beethoven’s Egmont. The concert, the opening of the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The four Cleveland Orchestra concerts at Severance Music Center this weekend are as traditional in form as orchestral programs can be. Although they follow the long-established ...

Few things tickle the attention of veteran concertgoers more than coming across unfamiliar music by familiar composers. Mikko Franck’s program with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this weekend at ...

Tempo warning: Christian Theilemann's Beethoven is not the one we have become accustomed to over during the 25 year spasm of "historically informed" or "period" performance. Theilmann's tempi are ...

John Barbirolli’s stature as a proponent of the music of Gustav Mahler was well-documented by several commercial recordings made in the 1960s. His comparable work on behalf of Anton Bruckner is being ...