For the first time, BBC Radio, Television and Interactive join forces to present a Beethoven season - the BBC's largest ever focus on a single creative artist. In an unprecedented event, BBC Radio 3 ...

The BBC has announced its Beethoven Unleashed season, which will mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going ...

The “we” in this instance belongs to the British. Outside Japan, Beethoven has nowhere been more celebrated to a degree bordering on mania, even in his own Austro-German lands, even surviving wartime ...

And speaking of Beethoven. The BBC recently made a set of the nine Beethoven symphonies available for download, to enormous success. Roger Wright, who runs BBC Radio 3, enthuses about the BBC's ...

MUMBAI: Live performances of Beethoven's complete symphonies have attracted 1.37 million download requests in a BBC trial in the UK which was offered as part of Radio 3's The Beethoven Experience. The ...

With soloists Leonidas Kavakos, Emmanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma on violin, piano and cello respectively coming together to form a mighty trio of classical musicians, audiences are in for a treat, regardless ...

Donald Macleod meets professional musicians to get the performer’s eye view of Beethoven. During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being made to musical instruments such as the keyboard ...

Bringing Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra back to the BBC Proms, last night’s concert offered a programme of Beethoven’s "Symphony No. 7 in A major" alongside Bartok’s dark one-act ...

A new documentary exploring how Beethoven would have experienced life more than 200 years ago will air as part of the BBC’s year-long celebration of the composer. Being Beethoven, an in-depth look ...

Listeners will be able to download live performances of Beethoven's nine symphonies from next month, as part of BBC Radio 3's Beethoven Experience. All Beethoven symphonies, performed by the BBC ...