Tag: Beethoven

This is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in G major. The three movement work goes for nearly 40 minutes. It’s exquisite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2360gtWBFeA Composed in 1805-06, it...

David Hiscox, Mark Richardson and Mark Moncrieff discuss what they consider to be the best of classical music and why. We discuss Beethoven's Heiligenstadt...

Franz Schubert was born on this day, January 31, in 1797. Tragically, he only lived to see 31 of his 219 birthdays since. In...

I realised how old I was getting during the course of a recent, quite amicable, conversation with a representative of the younger generation (perhaps...

In part 1 of this essay, I discussed how a child can absorb 600 years worth of "Classical Music," through from conception to the...

Having children is the most tremendous and rewarding responsibility one can have as a human being. As a music lover, I consider myself a...