Beethoven
List of News Articles
Beethoven's Seventh: the apotheosis of the dance?
10 June 2024
How has Wagner's epithet affected the way we approach this favourite Beethoven symphony?Ravel and the art of orchestration
25 March 2024
What makes Ravel such a great orchestrator?Beethoven and the Eroica theme
4 March 2024
What drew Beethoven to return to the same theme four times over?Two centuries of musical sunrises
19 February 2024
From Haydn to Maxwell Davies, composers have delighted in portraying the majesty of the rising sun. We look at a few of them ...Arrangements, (re)orchestrations and transcriptions: a bluffer's guide
15 January 2024
Is there any real difference between these terms?An introduction to Janissary music
11 December 2023
Why is Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5 known as the Turkish ... and is it warranted?The (mis)numbering of symphonies
3 November 2023
To mark the launch of our new Mendelssohn CD, we look at the thorny issue of how symphonies are numbered. Warning: may cause confusion!Napoleon and the Eroica
28 August 2023
If the Eroica was originally entitled the Bonaparte, what does the music tell us about Beethoven's view of Napoleon?