Herbert von Karajan directs the Berlin Philharmonic in an Italiannate take of Beethovens Fourth Symphony and an assured rendering of the Fifth while the Pastoral Symphony conceived and directed by ...

Claim: When Philips and Sony developed the compact disc format in the late 1970s, they specifically set its maximum length at 74 minutes to ensure that a single disc could hold all of Beethoven's 9th ...

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James Jolly and Rob Cowan discuss Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the art of interpretation and how the great recordings of the past century compare, including extracts from Carlos Kleiber, Herbert von ...

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Since 1972, the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has been the official anthem of the European Community and its successor: the EU. Here's why. From this symphony, the finale, known as the "Ode to ...