http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-412-ludwig-van-beethoven/topic-rss.do Ludwig van Beethoven RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/review-23748968-fame-is-highly-unlikely-to-live-forever.do Quite why anyone decided to make another version of Christopher Gore and Alan Parker’s exhilarating 1980 film, Fame, is beyond understanding 2009-09-24T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23706230-its-beethoven-on-the-ukelele-by-george.do Anyone trying to get in touch with their inner George Formby is being invited to take up the ukelele and join a mass rendition of Beethoven's Ode To Joy 2009-06-11T06:36:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23675465-venezuelan-youth-orchestra-to-star-in-the-new-season-at-festival-hall.do The orchestra now hailed as the most successful youth music project in the world is taking up residence in the Southbank Centre 2009-04-14T07:39:16Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23652107-end-this-downloads-ban.do As a Dutch radio station celebrates Haitink’s 80th birthday with free music online, it’s time for the BBC to stand up to the music industry 2009-02-25T11:19:59Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23629199-power-and-great-glory.do Stephen Kovacevich powered almost recklessly through the virtuoso variations of Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. 2009-01-27T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23580143-flowing-blonde-on-cello-in-brodsky-quartet.do The Brodsky Quartet play with familiar empathy. Three of them have been together since student days nearly three decades ago. 2008-10-30T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23564986-pianists-pianist-schiff-excels-with-beethoven.do Andras Schiff, named today as one of the Evening Standard’s 1000 Influentials, opened the autumn leg of the Temple Festival 2008 with a recital of four middle period sonatas. 2008-10-06T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23541531-beethoven-at-the-double.do There's no regulating the speed at which peasants merry-make but at the Proms, in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No6, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, they were going for gold. 2008-08-18T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23522932-fantastic-fifth-with-robertson.do The challenge to make the impossibly famous Beethoven's Fifth Symphony score fresh is harder than tackling a knotty world premiere, says Fiona Maddocks. 2008-07-28T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23479086-rattle-to-conduct-every-schumann-symphony.do Sir Simon Rattle will conduct all Schumann's symphonies and pianist Alfred Brendel will play his final London concert in the new classical music season at the Southbank Centre 2008-04-18T08:35:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23447948-bringing-turbulent-energy-to-brahms.do New York-based ensemble the Emerson Quartet drew a well informed and totally attentive audience for their series of three Brahms concerts. 2008-03-04T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23436843-epic-cycle-sheds-new-light-on-beethoven.do As Daniel Barenboim's magisterial cycle unfolds, those at the Festival Hall are in no doubt they are witnessing something monumental and unique. 2008-02-11T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23435793-ill-but-not-off-key.do Daniel Barenboim is no ordinary pianist and in performances of this stature, one has flickering glimpses of Beethoven himself at the keyboard. 2008-02-05T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23434721-a-night-with-musics-master-communicator.do Daniel Barenboim is a man who likes to live dangerously and whose credo is articulated through his music-making. 2008-01-29T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23433553-a-star-quartet.do The exhilarating Takacs Quartet are ideally matched in warmth of tone and personality, says Fiona Maddocks. 2008-01-22T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23433738-the-piano-player-who-sounds-like-an-orchestra.do After accepting Palestinian citizenship, Israeli Daniel Barenboim is to perform 32 Beethoven sonatas in London. 2008-01-23T11:36:09Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23429423-a-promising-ensemble.do The Dominant Quartet is a very personable all-female ensemble, establishing itself as one of the most promising of the younger generation. 2007-12-24T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23426791-composers-don-disguises.do The Britten Sinfonia's performance was precise and danceable, where shared pleasure in music-making was worth more than merely superficial gloss. 2007-12-11T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23420773-fast-finale.do The Emerson String Quartet attracted a capacity audience for their three-evening cycle of Bach's Art of Fugue and Beethoven's Opus59 "Razumovsky" Quartets. 2007-11-13T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23411274-brahms-blasted-by-the-brass.do The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly brought a palpably less well nourished tone to Beethoven and Brahms. 2007-09-05T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/review-23408612-new-backstory-for-beethoven.do Copying Beethoven sees actor Ed Harris not only looking like the genius composer, but spitting out his well-written lines with real panache. 2007-08-15T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23404450-choral-sympathy-for-beethoven.do After last year's cancellation of Beethoven, Proms traditionalists would have been gratified by its inclusion twice this year. 2007-07-15T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23404169-elgar-and-walton-kick-off-the-proms.do The 113th Proms kick off tonight at the Royal Albert Hall with some of the most popular works in the classical canon 2007-07-13T11:28:50Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23402779-tribute-to-forgotten-violinist.do The Dante Quartet performed Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and did not sell the drama short in their performance 2007-07-02T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23400226-the-five-star-festival-hall.do The refurbished Royal Festival Hall received top marks from Barry Millington for its opening concert featuring all four resident orchestras. 2007-06-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23398469-rescued-just-in-time.do The first half of this Fidelio was something of a Sunday afternoon doze - but it jerked into life after the interval, says Fiona Maddocks. 2007-05-28T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23396680-predictable-programme-but-lucid-playing.do Classical performers get criticised for predictable programming, but sometimes it makes absolute sense, as with pianist Imogen Cooper's assembly of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. 2007-05-16T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23389666-steered-to-safety-by-sublime-melody.do Wild, knotted, near insane in its intensity, The Emersons conquered Beethoven's Grosse Fuge Op133 long ago. 2007-03-20T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23378831-bach-concert-is-a-joy.do Gladness and rejoicing dominated a concert of four Bach cantatas for Advent conducted by John Eliot Gardiner and performed by his peerless Monteverdi Choir. 2006-12-19T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23375366-bono-is-just-like-beethoven.do Despite an age difference of 200 years, 'huge similarities' have been noted between two very different musical icons - Bono and Beethoven - writes Daniel Bates. 2006-11-22T12:43:23Z