In 1943, Bela Bartok’s finances were a wreck and his health was failing fast due to complications from leukemia. And yet the ailing composer still had one, final masterpiece to create. Thanks to a ...

One of the greatest composers in history added to his musical legacy with the invention of the CD, over 150 years after he died. In the late 1970s, executives in the recording and hi-fi industries ...

“I need to play the notes in such a way that we can recreate the feelings of the listeners which Beethoven would have wanted to invoke in his audience, rather than playing it exactly how we wanted it ...

Every good actor wants to play Hamlet or one of the Henrys before he dies, and very nearly every orchestra conductor wants to be remembered for his nine Beethoven symphonies. Hence we have in the ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt announced his retirement in December, so this live recording from May 2015 is presumably among his last. Harnoncourt has recorded plenty of Beethoven before – including an iconic ...