The first film Beethoven film to be given a PG-rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) since the second film. (at about 13 minutes) When Beethoven steals Billy's cookies during ...

Composed in 1808, Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony is one of his few pieces to have explicitly programmatic content. We hear the buoyant, optimistic, almost skipping melody that begins the symphony, ...

Beethoven lived in the noisy and polluted early industrial era. To escape the rabble, those with means would pay for a few quiet hours at a spa. Beethoven’s solution was to escape to the countryside ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Hans van der Woerd Between the Philadelphia Orchestra’s performances of Beethoven’s Fourth ...

The gentle, programmatic Pastoral is the Beethoven symphony that people tend not to like, and this undistinguished recording shows us why. Having awakened feelings of torpor upon arriving in the ...

Many of Beethoven's works are titled, yet many of these names came from friends or from those to whom the pieces were dedicated. The Sixth Symphony, however, is one of only two symphonies Beethoven ...

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt’s Vienna Philharmonic Beethoven cycle (recorded 1965-9) gave countless listeners formative gateways to the symphonies. If your personal hindsight extends more readily to other ...