Listening to Richard Goode play Beethoven Friday night in Evanston’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, one was reminded of Henry Mencken’s remark about the famous American critic, James Huneker. “Because of ...

Pity the poor sequel director. It’s a can’t-win job. If the movie hits, it’s because the original was great; if it fails, it’s because the new director’s a jerk. Worse, he’s got to walk the dangerous ...

Lengthy, complex and unrelentingly difficult to sing, Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” is truly the “New York, New York” of the choral repertoire. If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere. The ...

The all-Beethoven concert has become the risk-free perennial of our musical life, its contents as correct to contemporary ears as, say, Tchaikovsky was to earlier generations. Of course, the very ...

Richard Goode, one of today’s most probing interpreters of keyboard music, will give an all-Beethoven recital at the Kravis Center tonight. The program, presented by the Regional Arts Foundation, ...

Auditions for the Musikfest Chorus will be held 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. July 8 and noon to 1:30 p.m. July 10 in First Presbyterian Church, 2344 Center St., Bethlehem. The once-a-year chorus, directed by ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Beethoven but were afraid you couldn’t find is now available with the touch of a home computer keyboard. Jumping ahead of world centers of scholarship, the Ira ...

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto - (Remastered 1993) Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: III. Rondo. Vivace - (Remastered 1993) Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, ...