Composer

Aviv Quartet

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Keitaku Iwata, violin

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko, praised for his “precipitous muscularity and high spirits” (New York Classical Review), graces to Washington Performing Arts with electrifying artistry and a program of epic scope at Sixth & I. The evening opens with Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” Sonata, followed by the dark lyricism of Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshinsky’s Three Preludes, Op. 38. Kholodenko concludes with a virtuosic flourish: Liszt’s original Six Paganini Études, a breathtaking showcase of pianistic brilliance that has long been a hallmark of Kholodenko’s playing.

Vadym Kholodenko, piano

Sixth & I

EPSG:4326

Heroic

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

A brief glance at Frank Peter Zimmermann's discography is enough to sum up the breadth of the repertoire of this musician blessed by the gods who, on his successive Stradivarius, has interpreted almost everything in violin literature, its pillars as well as its rare territories, with the same fluid, singing, natural and unemphasized playing. This is to say how lucky we are to hear such a master return to the masterpiece he most often revisited, the radiant Beethoven Concerto . Before the National and Cristian Măcelaru lift us to the heights of Brahms's Premiere .

The Grand Tour

Le Quartz

Theater Anne de Bretagne

Théâtre de Caen

In order to free her husband Florestan, Leonore disguises herself as a male prison guard and sneaks into a prison. Beethoven’s only opera is infused with an unwavering belief in the power of hope. The powerful liberation music at the end anticipates the «Ode to Joy» from his Ninth Symphony. Andreas Homoki separates the plot from its bourgeois comic light opera context, focusing instead on the utopian idea of world brotherhood and the universal themes of humanity that Beethoven chose as his central focus. Klaus Florian Vogt, one of the most outstanding tenors of our time, will appear as Florestan.

Fidelio

Zurich Opera House

May Concert 2026

Pomona College

Each season ticket purchase will provide you with one ticket to each of the upcoming six concerts of the season. If there is a concert you cannot attend, we can either donate your ticket to a student/veteran or provide you with extra tickets to a different concert date.

Beethoven's Thrilling 5th Symphony

La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church

Coffee Concert No. 4 "Oh, my goodness!"

Volkshaus Jena

Join us for a grand finale to the Symphony’s 70th anniversary season with Beethoven’s awe-inspiring Ninth Symphony! A cornerstone of classical music and a triumph of human spirit, this legendary work unites orchestra, chorus, and soloists in a powerful celebration of unity and hope. Experience the emotion, energy, and brilliance of one of history’s most influential masterpieces—live in all its glory.

Beethoven 9

Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts

Fox Theater

Beethoven’s immortal Symphony No. 9 features soloists from the Metropolitan Opera in collaboration with the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus. The concert opens with Dvořák’s Carnival Overture, an exuberant symphonic poem, followed by the world premiere of a new composition for piano and orchestra by virtual reality guru Jaron Lanier, written specifically for the Santa Cruz Symphony and featuring groundbreaking pianist Serene.

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Civic Auditorium Santa Cruz

Watsonville High School

A spectacular end to the year with a COP commission by Trevor Weston, our two Young Artist Concerto Competition winners, and a lesser-known symphony of Beethoven.

Season Finale!

Rodef Shalom Congregation

Ode to Joy

Rutgers University–Camden

ROCO concludes its Connections Series and its 21st season with Sense of Mind—a bold exploration of how music and the brain intertwine. Presented first at ARTECHOUSE Houston, the performance pairs ROCO musicians with advanced technology, translating real-time neural activity into immersive visuals that react to the sound waves emitted by the musical instruments.

Designed in partnership with neuroscientists and digital artists, Neurofeedback invites audiences to consider how music moves us emotionally and how we process it biologically. The concert features guest pianist Mei Rui (Director of Music in Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center) and a newly commissioned piece by Anthony Brandt, along with visuals created by animator/illustrator Badie Khaleghian.

ROCO Connections: Sense of Mind

Artechouse Houston

In collaboration with the University of Northern Colorado choirs, your Greeley Philharmonic brings you a night of masterful works. Be immersed in a daring prison escape with Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture. Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition brings Viktor Hartmann’s artwork to life. In the second half, the choir and orchestra combine with Vaughan Williams’ “Serenade to Music,” which pays homage to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. To end your Greeley Philharmonic’s 114th season, the combined ensemble performs Bernstein’s Hebrew Chichester Psalms. You don’t want to miss the season finale!

Beethoven to Bernstein

Union Colony Civic Center

After opening with LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, LSO celebrates the culmination of her three-year residency by presenting her newly commissioned Violin Concerto No. 3, written for the orchestra and concertmaster Anton Miller. Following intermission, LSO performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s magnificent and heroic Symphony No. 3 “Eroica.”

Inspiration & Courage

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Join us for an unforgettable evening where raw emotion meets musical might.
The night opens with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture—a gripping sonic battle of will and destiny, capturing the fierce inner conflict of a tragic hero. Next, prepare to be swept away by the lyric fire of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, a masterwork that wields grace as strength and passion as purpose. Finally, revel in the bold exuberance of Schubert’s Symphony No. 2, a youthful yet commanding declaration of symphonic brilliance.

Finding Power

University of Redlands

A superb young Toronto pianist plays Beethoven's noble Emperor Concerto and  the season wraps with one of Shostakovich's most personal masterpieces and the eternal genius of Bach 

The Emperor

Meridian Arts Centre

One of today’s most acclaimed violinists, Randall Goosby, and piano collaborator Zhu Wang play Beethoven’s Spring Sonata plus works by Harry Burleigh, Dvorak, Debussy, and Amy Beach in their PSC debut concert

Randall Goosby, Violin Zhu Wang, Piano

Public High School

By the time Ludwig van Beethoven began composing his ninth symphony in 1823, his hearing had almost completely deteriorated. Despite his battles with hearing loss, Beethoven was able to compose a symphony that instantly became a masterwork, of which there are few that are as acclaimed or beloved. The grandiose finale introduces the immortal “Ode to Joy” theme, signifying the triumph of the human spirit over adversity and serving as a testament to artistic resilience. The UMD Symphony Orchestra is joined by the UMD Concert Choir for a performance of this legendary symphony, providing a bombastic and joyful conclusion to the School of Music’s season!

Beethoven's Ninth: UMD Symphony Orchestra with UMD Concert Choir

University of Maryland

The Romantics

The Salvation Army Scarborough Citadel Community Church

The final SFCM Orchestra concert of the season showcases the majestic and spirited Overture to King Stephen by Beethoven as well as other famous works by John Adams, Silvestre Revueltas, and Igor Stravinsky. This concert also features the Esmé Quartet, praised for their warm sound and powerful stage presence. This performance also features student conductors Jason Gluck and Chih-Yao Chang.

SFCM Orchestra with Edwin Outwater

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The superb young Toronto pianist Vanessa Yu joins the orchestra in one of the greatest concertos of all time, Beethoven’s noble Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor.” Music director Nurhan Arman leads the orchestra in Dmitri Shostakovich’s poignant and personal Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110a and finishes with the powerful reassurance of J.S. Bach’s “Contrapunctus 1” and “Contrapunctus 2” in beautifully transparent orchestral versions.

Sinfonia Toronto: THE EMPEROR | Beethoven - Shostakovich - Bach

AHE continues its exploration of historical chamber arrangements with William Watt’s arrangement of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony and Cimador’s adaptation of Mozart’s Haffner.

Beethoven's Fourth

Berry Uniting Church

Bowral Memorial Hall

ACO On The Pier

National Gallery of Australia

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is often described as “fate knocking at the door.” The symphony reflects his personal struggle with adversity and his triumph over despair — bursting with vitality, defiance, and an unshakable belief in the human spirit — transcending its time and place to become a symbol and voice of resilience, freedom, and hope. Looking to the future, the MSO has commissioned composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer to create a world premiere work in celebration of our 100th Anniversary. EARTH: A Choral Symphony will celebrate our beautiful planet and humanity’s place on it. Composed in four movements, the piece explores themes of truth and possibility, with each movement touching on a different aspect of the wonder of Earth and our place in its story. John DeMain and the Madison Symphony Orchestra, famed Met Opera soprano Ailyn Pérez, and three choruses, will weave together elements of the story in these world premiere performances. We invite you to witness the birth of this dramatic new work that will speak of our Earth, the vibrant place we share together.

Voices Eternal

Overture Center for the Arts

When Jess Gillam isn’t in the recording studio or serenading audiences with her acclaimed saxophone playing, she can be heard hosting her award-winning BBC radio program, This Classical Life. In Gillam’s bold, uplifting, and open-minded approach composer Anna Clyne found the perfect soloist to champion her new saxophone concerto, Glasslands, in which she lets loose the Irish folkloric spirit of the banshee through the virtuosity of the solo instrument.

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Denver Performing Arts Complex

All the poise, elegance and grace of the Classical period is in this concert – on the surface. But each piece shows its composer in an inventive mood, pushing the boundaries of what was expected and creating something new. Prokofiev imagined how Mozart or Haydn might write in the 1920s and produced his charming First Symphony. Mozart used his Fifth Violin Concerto to play with tempo and style, creating his most brilliant, lyrical and witty writing for the instrument. And Beethoven’s First Symphony contains all the clues required to understand that this was no ordinary composer – he would take thee symphony to somewhere entirely new.

Ulster Orchestra: Classical Adventures

Ulster Hall

Beloved by audiences worldwide for her playing that is “fearless…tonally rich and technically immaculate” (The Guardian), violinist Lisa Batiashvili returns to the Series after her acclaimed 2023 performance alongside pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and cellist Gautier Capuçon. Don’t miss your chance to witness an artist who effortlessly blends delicacy with intensity and lyricism with precision in a rare duo recital with Giorgi Gigashvili.

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

New England Conservatory of Music

Grace Koh, violin

All the poise, elegance and grace of the Classical period is in this concert – on the surface. But each piece shows its composer in an inventive mood, pushing the boundaries of what was expected and creating something new. Prokofiev imagined how Mozart or Haydn might write in the 1920s and produced his charming First Symphony. Mozart used his Fifth Violin Concerto to play with tempo and style, creating his most brilliant, lyrical and witty writing for the instrument. And Beethoven’s First Symphony contains all the clues required to understand that this was no ordinary composer – he would take the symphony to somewhere entirely new.

Classical Adventures

Belfast

Beethoven, Violin Concerto / Frank Peter Zimmermann

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Returning for his second BSO program this season, Dima Slobodeniouk leads one of the American composer John Adams’ first major works, Harmonium for chorus and orchestra. Written in 1981 for the San Francisco Symphony, this grand, half-hour work sets a poem by John Donne and two by Emily Dickinson in gradually unfolding, majestic textures. With its slowly evolving harmonic fields and rhythmic energy, Harmonium marked the future Pulitzer Prize winner and composer of the operas Doctor Atomic and Nixon in China as an important and original voice in American music. Beethoven's larger-than-life, ecstatic Symphony No. 9 closes the season.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The key of C minor represented something particularly dramatic in Beethoven, and this evening the key runs like a stormy, red thread through the program. In Symphony No. 5, fate itself knocks on the door, and the entire work seethes with energy and intensity, before the darkness is finally overcome and it all ends in bright triumph.

Manacorda, Andsnes & Beethoven

DR Koncerthuset

Masaaki Suzuki conducts Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a program featuring Mozart’s Don Giovanni overture, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major performed by Midori, and Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony. From dramatic tension to vibrant dances, the concert journeys through pivotal works of the great classical and early romantic masters.

Midori Performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Carnegie Hall

Lisa Batiashvili doesn’t just play the violin—she conjures worlds with it. Hailed as “the complete musician” (The Times, London), she has mesmerized audiences in the world’s most revered halls — including a spellbinding 2015 appearance in Richardson Auditorium. Now, in this rare and intimate duo recital, she joins forces with Giorgi Gigashvili, the young Georgian pianist protégé of Martha Argerich, whose volcanic energy and poetic touch are making waves across the globe. Their program is a journey through raw emotion and staggering virtuosity—Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 3 brims with charm and fire, setting the stage for Prokofiev’s haunting Violin Sonata No. 1—a masterpiece of shadow and intensity, where ghostly whispers, icy lyricism, and explosive power push both musicians to the edge. A new work by Josef Bardanashvili, a fellow Georgian whose music pulses with mystery and soul, makes its Princeton debut before the night closes in the rapture of Franck’s Violin Sonata—a piece so intoxicatingly beautiful it’s been called “a love letter in music.” This concert is a high-voltage meeting of artistic minds, generations, and traditions—a program of music that grabs you and doesn’t let go, performed by two of the most magnetic artists of our time.

Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Giorgi Gigashvili, Piano

Richardson Auditorium

Quartetto Adorno

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9

It will not surprise fans of the probing, insightful pianist Víkingur Ólafsson that his newest project goes deep. Previously, he devoted an entire season of performances to Bach’s Goldberg Variations—playing the cycle for 88 concerts in total, including at Cal Performances in May 2024—because, in his words, “I wanted to know how deeply I can dive into a composition and how many different facets I can discover in it.” He won a Grammy this year for his sterling recording of that work.

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

Cal Performances

With three gems from chamber music, the Busch Trio celebrates the triumph of art over the adversities of life: In his Piano Trio K. 502, the immortal Mozart plays with light and shade, yet his choice of the key of B-flat major underscores the hope for a better world. Despite the despair over his increasing deafness, Beethoven reached a creative peak around the creation of his "Ghost Trio." And Schubert, in the face of his approaching death, composed nothing less than a masterpiece with the monumental E-flat major Trio.

Pure classical music: Busch Trio

Mozarteum Foundation

Tens of millions of viewers watched in awe as Alexandre Kantorow played Ravel in the rain at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Now, the pianist described by Fanfare as “Liszt reincarnated” returns to LA.

Alexandre Kantorow

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Filippo Gorini - 35° Festival Milano Musica

Teatro alla Scala

Experience the brilliance of the Ébène Quartet in a whole new light – the warm, inviting glow of candlelight. Known for their versatility and electrifying stage presence, the Ébène will present a program that showcases their mastery of the string quartet repertoire. Hear Beethoven's joyfully spirited String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2, Ravel's colorfully sensuous Quartet in F Major, and Brahms' lyrical and expansive String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2. The candlelight will create an intimate and immersive atmosphere, allowing you to connect with the music on a profound level.

Ébène Quartet

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Fibonacci String Quartet

3rd Youth Concert

Gasteig HP8

One of the most accomplished violinists of her generation, Lisa Batiashvili performs works by Beethoven, Bartók, Franck, and fellow Georgian Ioseb Bardanashvili, with her compatriot, pianist Giorgi Gigashvili.

Described by The Times as “the complete musician,” Batiashvili commands her place among the world’s foremost artists with performances of great insight and expressive eloquence. The German-based violinist, named Musical America’s 2015 Instrumentalist of the Year, an accolade reserved for artists of the highest calibre, also stands among the winners of Italy’s prestigious International Accademia Musicale Chigiana Prize.

Lisa Batiashvili, violin, with Giorgi Gigashvili, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Internationally renowned British cellist, Steven Isserlis CBE, praised for leaving listeners “in perpetual wonder at the ingredients in his art” (The Australian), performs a program suited to his brilliance and versatility. From the playful charm and innovation of Beethoven to Soviet composer Kabalevsky’s personal emotion to Czech trailblazer Kaprálová’s explosiveness, Isserlis embarks on a captivating journey for all who cherish cello and piano.

Steven Isserlis, cello Connie Shih, piano

Johns Hopkins University

"May the day be lost to us on which there was not a single dance!" Friedrich Nietzsche already expressed this sentiment – ​​and so we gladly gather under the choreographic direction of Juraj Valčuha for several playful, melodious dances of joy on our instruments. The Hungarian composer Béla Bartók found much inspiration for this during his beloved "folk song collecting trips." His suite was composed in 1923 for the 50th anniversary of the unification of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest into the new capital, Budapest. This large-scale orchestral work, featuring plenty of percussion, celesta, and piano, contains a whole series of dances – sometimes elegiac, sometimes stamping, sometimes cheerful, and culminating in a triumphant celebration of joie de vivre. 

Juraj Valčuha, Frank Peter Zimmermann

Bamberger Symphoniker

Sohyoung Park, Piano

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Season Finale - Eroica

Decorah High School

Experience a rousing conclusion to our 36th season with a program that spans brilliance, beauty, and boldness. The evening opens with the thrilling Concerto for Four Horns by Hübler, a showcase of dazzling brass virtuosity, followed by Mozart’s radiant Violin Concerto No. 4, featuring acclaimed soloist Misha Vitenson. The season reaches its stirring apex with Beethoven’s majestic Symphony No. 5 — one of the most iconic works in classical music. Join us as we celebrate the power of live performance and the joy of music that transcends boundaries.

WORLD OF MUSIC–36th SEASON FINALE

Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center

Bruce Liu : Chamber orchestra

Prinzregententheater

This concert series is a must for connoisseurs and enthusiasts: chamber music at its finest – subtle, intimate, and full of discoveries. Alongside the great masters of Viennese Classicism, the Handel Festival Orchestra, with its historically informed sound, will also be featured.

5. Classical Music in the Afternoon

Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche

Driven by a mission to broaden classical music’s reach and armed with the technical means and communicative powers necessary to do so, Randall Goosby has won audience ovations worldwide with the profound personal authenticity of his artistry. The American violinist and his regular duo partner Zhu Wang, gold medallist at the 2024 New Orleans International Piano Competition, explore evocative works from the Old and New Worlds including Harry Thacker Burleigh’s folk-inspired Southland Sketches.

Randall Goosby | Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall

After 51 legendary years, founding cellist András Fejér has announced his retirement from the Takács Quartet. The ensemble is thrilled to welcome the acclaimed Mihai Marica as their new cellist, effective September 1, 2026. Marica will join the Takács Quartet on stage for the final piece of the April 2026 concert.

Takács Quartet (in-person and digital): April 2026

University of Colorado Boulder

 Bask in Beethoven’s sun-infused, high-spirited Fourth Symphony, whose second movement, said Berlioz, sounds like “an angel singing at the gates of Paradise.” Plus, saxophonist Steven Banks performs Childs’ Diaspora , which the composer describes as “a symphonic poem which strives to chronicle the paradigm of the forced black American diaspora, as sifted through the prism of my own experience as a black man in America.”   

Beethoven's Symphony No. 4

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

University Symphony Orchestra Concert

Missouri Theatre Columbia

Eddie Zhou, violin

Merida Trio — Charlene Kluegel (violin), Katherine Petersen (piano), and Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Jean Hatmaker — joins for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano, and Mahler’s Titan Symphony concludes the 2025/2026 season!

the triple and the titan

Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church

Filled with vitality and optimism, Bright Blue wraps you in a vivid wave of rhythm and color that’s impossible not to enjoy.

A Joyful Finale to an Epic Season!

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

One of Canada’s most beloved pianists, Angela Cheng, takes center stage in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1—a sparkling, crowd-pleasing masterpiece that blends classical charm with virtuosic brilliance.

Chen, Cheng & Beethoven

Darke Hall

Thanks to Mozart, the horn acquired its first letters of nobility at a time when it was considered only as an instrument for hunting and the outdoors. Both noble and joyful, enriched by a slow movement imbued with great tenderness, the Second Concerto (1783) highlights the new head of the OPRL horn section, Margaux Ortman. A mature work, Mozart's Symphony No. 39 (1788) is inspired by the theater, and is similar to Don Giovanni in its incessant quest for colors, the presence of deep and meditative passages, and this ability to shape melodies like true lines of song. Sublime!

Mozart, Symphony No. 39

Jünglingshaus

Revered Jerusalem String Quartet brings us Beethoven Op. 130 (with the Grosse Fuge), Haydn “Sunrise” Quartet, Op. 76, No. 4, and a new work by Shulamit Ran in their anticipated return to PSC

Jerusalem String Quartet

Beethoven Eroica

Ambassador Mansions & Gardens

Close the season with a concert full of wit, charm, and symphonic surprises! We open with The Young Lutheran’s Guide to the Orchestra, a hilarious and heartfelt introduction to the instruments and personalities of the ensemble. Then, comedy takes center stage with P.D.Q. Bach’s outrageous twist on the first movement of Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony. Finally, wcfsymphony brings it all home with the real thing—performing the remaining movements of Beethoven’s masterwork just as the composer intended.

SEASON FINALE - Comic Relief: A Night at the Symphony

Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center

Concertini

La Monnaie - De Munt

Lidiya Yankovskaya returns to conduct Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5, before the orchestra and Opera Omaha take on a brand-new collaboration: Bartók’s haunting Bluebeard’s Castle. This psychologically intense one-act masterpiece will be performed with the Omaha Symphony on full display, telling the gripping story of Bluebeard and his wife Judith as they uncover dark secrets in his mysterious castle. Michelle DeYoung, renowned for her powerful voice, takes on the role of Judith, while baritone Ryan McKinny, whose voice “drips with gold” (Opera News), makes his Omaha Symphony debut as Bluebeard. This semi-staged concert experience, co-presented with Opera Omaha, offers a unique opportunity to dive into one of opera’s most compelling works.

Applied Underwriters Presents Beethoven’s Fifth & Bluebeard’s Castle

Omaha Performing Arts

Trevor Pinnock, one of the great masters of Baroque and Classical music in our age, and Alexandra Dovgan, a young pianist already celebrated across the world for the majesty and beauty of her playing, join the Orchestra together for the first time for a glorious all-Beethoven program, filled with high drama, hope and nobility. After the tragic grandeur of the Coriolan Overture come two of Beethoven’s greatest and most uplifting masterpieces: the “Emperor” Concerto and the Seventh Symphony, both pieces of overwhelming power and invention.

A Feast of Beethoven

Jacobs Music Center

The Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus, directed by Nicholas Quardokus, will join the CSO and talented soloists for this uplifting season finale concert weekend. Haydn’s “London” Symphony and Dvořák’s Te Deum are also included in the roster of music from renowned composers. 

Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy

Gaillard Center

Courtney Lewis leads a program blending timeless classics with bold new sounds. Wagner’s grand Meistersinger Prelude sets the tone, followed by a highly anticipated world premiere from Anna Clyne. Ellington’s Celebration infuses jazz energy, leading to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, one of history’s most iconic and powerful works.

Beethoven’s Fifth

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Four notes: Ta ta ta taaa. Symphony of Destiny. The Fifth. It doesn't take much to immediately know that Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is meant. The four notes immediately catch the ear and don't want to go away. Likewise, the symphony's relevance, the liberal ideas that Beethoven brought into the world with it, are reflected. School classes from the Beethoven-Gymnasium, which celebrates its 400th anniversary in 2026 and the school Beethoven himself once attended, will show us how relevant these are and what we can learn today from studying this symphony. 

Beethoven 5

Beethoven Hall

Tonight you will hear the Hague premiere of Dance – the highly acclaimed cello concerto by British composer Anna Clyne. As one of the most performed contemporary composers, she drew her inspiration from the mystical verses of Persian poet Rumi. The work’s five movements – focusing on themes such as loss, love and acceptance – demonstrate her ability to translate deep human emotions into music. Cellist Camille Thomas does full justice to the poetic power of the piece.

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony 

Amare

Quatuor Van Kuijk

Sala Coro

Gregory Martin, piano

“After dinner, I prevailed upon CPE Bach to sit down again to a clavichord…he grew so animated and possessed, that he not only played, but looked like one inspired.” Possessed and entranced too is the F major symphony by CPE Bach: kinks and coils at every turn, with heaps of non-sequiturs that fit bizarrely and beautifully together. Internationally renowned violinist and Philharmonia favorite Shunske Sato guides us through the connection between works by some of the 18th and 19th centuries’ most beloved composers.

Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Events

Upcoming events

May 11, 2025 - May 10, 2026

6th Chamber Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Sep 16, 2025 - Jun 16, 2026

NDR Chamber Concert · Elbphilharmonie

Dec 29, 2025 - Dec 31, 2026

New Year's Eve concert · Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Feb 4 - May 6, 2026

Chamber Concert · Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie

Mar 8 - Jul 18, 2026

Fidelio · Bayerische Staatsoper

Past events

May 5, 2026

Aviv Quartet · Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

May 5, 2026

Keitaku Iwata, violin · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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