Go big or go home!” A new season opens with the CBSO and Chorus giving an epic Beethoven Ninth at Birmingham's Symphony Hall.

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Grajter, Małgorzata 2024. Applying Translation Theory to Musicological Research. Vol. 27, Issue. , p. 59. Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of ...

Kazuki Yamada conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, alongside Strauss's Metamorphosen and Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Show more ...

One of the most interesting documents found for me by the late Stroma Sutherland, fabled keeper of Robert Layton's office at the BBC, was a transcript of a discussion of the first movement of ...

Kazuki Yamada’s infectious ebullience has rubbed off in a major way on the Birmingham orchestra, and this season they tackle ...

A collection of performances to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...

Written when Beethoven was almost completely deaf, Symphony No. 9 received enthusiastic applause during its premiere in Vienna in 1824. The finale, Ode To Joy, scored for choir and soloists ...

The rigid forms of classical music gave way to greater expression, and music grew closer to art, literature and theatre. Beethoven pioneered Romanticism and expanded previously strict formulas for ...

The season will run from September 19, 2024 through May 3, 2025 with a debut by new Composer Chair Carlos Simon on Opening ...