Composer

The Dalí Quartet is acclaimed for bringing Latin American quartet repertoire to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon. Tours of its Classical Roots, Latin Soul programming have reached enthusiastic audiences across the U.S., Canada and South America. Its fresh approach has been sought out by distinguished series in New York, Buffalo, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Clevaland, Seattle, San Juan and countless communities beyond. The quartet has been called upon for return engagements at Bravo!Vail Music Festival, National Gallery of Art, Friends of Chamber Music in Portland, Chamber Music Tulsa, the Slee Beethoven Cycle Series, the SA’OAXACA International Music Festival in México, among others. Other recent appearances include the Virginia Arts Festival, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts, Maverick Concerts, and the east coast premiere of Anna Clyne’s Quarter Days, Concerto for String Quartet and Chamber Orchestra, co-commissioned by the Harrisburg Symphony, and the world premiere of Roydon Tse’s work for string quartet and full orchestra with the Annapolis Symphony.

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Dalí Quartet

The Chapel Restoration

The Danish String Quartet made its debut at the Copenhagen Summer Festival in 2002. The group is known for its performances of classical music as well as its own renditions of traditional Nordic folk music. The quartet has also worked with an extensive range of contemporary Scandinavian composers.

Danish String Quartet

Maverick Concert Hall

The love for music is in Czech genes. There is good reason for the saying: Every Czech is a musician. Czech musicians are rightly considered to be the absolute best in the interpretation of classical music in the world. Do you want to meet them live?Come to a concert of the Prague Music Orchestra chamber ensemble, which originated in the beginning of the 21st century and is one of the most renowned Czech musical ensembles today. It is distinguished by a unique, cultivated sound and it is a representative of highly appreciated interpretation art.

Beethoven & Mozart in the Municipal House

Municipal House

AHE presents a stunning program of string quartets from late 18th Century Bohemian Vienna including works dedicated to Beethoven’s Bohemian patron - Lobkowitz.

Divine Bohemians

Berry Uniting Church

Bowral Memorial Hall

ACO On The Pier

National Gallery of Australia

A sacred masterpiece – Beethoven’s radiant Mass in C speaks from the heart and is a beautiful, deeply personal contemplation of the divine.

Three Choirs Festival: Beethoven Mass in C

Gloucester Cathedral

A truly exceptional pianist of huge nuance, expression and communicative abilities returns to this year’s festival with a recital at Merton College Chapel bookended by Beethoven. Isata Kanneh-Mason plays the composer’s iconic Moonlight and Waldstein sonatas while also bringing us the striking imagery and technical virtuosity of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. After that come two works by one of the most imaginative and original composers working today Dobrinka Tabakova, including another moon-themed work – her luminous depiction of a lunar phenomenon from darkness to shine to settled glow, Halo.

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Merton College

Led by Michael Collins, Wigmore Hall Soloists brings together some of the world’s finest musicians to form a unique, flexible chamber ensemble. Its latest concert unites two masterworks for wind and string ensemble. Beethoven’s carefree Septet became an international hit during his lifetime, while Schubert’s Octet was brought to life by many of the musicians who gave the Septet’s first performance.

Wigmore Soloists

Wigmore Hall

A linear trajectory between two stars who continue to shine brightly in the highest musical firmament, the ideal setting for a captivating encounter between Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Orchestre Métropolitain, and the magnificent violinist Veronika Eberle, returning to the Festival de Lanaudière.

Nézet-Séguin and Eberle: Romantic Ecstasy

Festival de Lanaudière

With a career spanning three decades, the multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. Known for delivering performances that are “engrossing, characterful … with a luminescent tranquillity [and] spine-tingling intensity” (The New York Times), the Quartet is celebrated for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and fearless repertory choices. Its sound, distinguished by “warmth of phrasing, dynamic control and superbly coordinated ensemble balance” (Gramophone Magazine), has solidified the ensemble as one of the most essential voices in American chamber music.

Pacifica Quartet

The centerpiece of the ceremony is Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony – a work of timeless grandeur and visionary power that profoundly influenced Richard Wagner. The program is complemented by the prelude from "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" and the entrance of the guests from "Tannhäuser."

Symphony No. 9

Bayreuth Festival Theatre

Prokofiev’s merry klezmer romp sets the stage for Timo Andres’ imaginative reframing of a problematic Mozart concerto. Mozart didn’t notate large swaths of the left hand part. Mr. Andres filled in the missing parts as if a live performance was suddenly hijacked by a rogue left hand from the 21 st century, with strange and beautiful results

.Beethoven’s First Symphony, written when he was just 30, may seem traditional when compared to the eight ground-breaking symphonies that followed, but the First was conceived very calculatedly as a calling card to the Vienna establishment. The First was in the best tradition of the late Mozart and Beethoven’s current teacher, Haydn, while demonstrating just enough independence and slightly shocking “modernity” to attract key Viennese patronage. And it still delights, 226 years later!

Summer Classics 2026

Cañada College

The towering pianistic talent that is Steven Osborne opens the festival at Christ Church Cathedral with two standout masterpieces of the Viennese school. He starts with Schubert’s last and greatest piano sonata – a work of introspection, volatility but unbounded lyricism that had a profound influence on Beethoven. And Beethoven balances it here in the form of the greatest set of keyboard variations after Bach’s Goldbergs – the journey from the plain to the celestial that is Beethoven’s monumental Diabelli Variations.

Steven Osborne

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Let the orchestra’s masterful interpretation immerse you in the timeless brilliance of Beethoven’s genius. Join us for an evening of symphonic excellence, bringing the transcendent beauty of Beethoven’s Choral Symphony to life.

Beethoven's Ninth

Southbank Centre

The Verona Quartet returns to the Spanish Courtyard with Inflection Points, a program focusing on societal changes every 100 years through the lens of music.  As the 2017–18 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence, the ensemble has a long-standing history with the Caramoor, including a highly praised 2021 performance of Ligeti and Dvořák that showcased their "cohesive and thoughtful" approach.

Verona Quartet

The Rosen House at Caramoor

For years, our summer concert at Kleinhans Music Hall has been a thank you to our Donors and Subscribers. This year, we’re excited to welcome everyone because the BPO loves Buffalo and wants to share the music with the whole community! Led by JoAnn Falletta, this concert features a lively program with pieces the BPO musicians love but rarely perform. Celebrate the music, summer, and the community that makes it all possible!

Patron Appreciation Concert

Kleinhans Music Hall

His First Symphony and Second Piano Concerto reveal a composer testing the limits of what music could be. This concert offers a unique chance to experience Beethoven’s evolution from his early career to the beginning of his heroic period.

Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto

Sydney Opera House

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine. 

Summer Evenings V 2026

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Genre-defying South African cellist Abel Selaocoe returns as soloist in the UK premiere of American composer Jessie Montgomery’s These Righteous Paths – inspired by her late mother, the poet and playwright Robbie McCauley. The concert opens with Bach’s mighty Fantasia and Fugue in G minor in Andrew Davis’s colourful orchestral arrangement. After the interval comes the monumental power of Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony: a musical cry for freedom and brotherhood that culminates in the radiant ‘Ode to Joy’. This concert marks Gianandrea Noseda’s return to the podium of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra after his final appearance as its Chief Conductor 11 years ago.

Beethoven’s Ninth

Royal Albert Hall

Born in France, to a French father and Korean mother, the foundations of Irène Duval’s perceptive artistry were set during her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris and Kronberg Academy. In high demand as a chamber music partner, she’s joined this morning by Canadian pianist Connie Shih for a recital that encompasses the dynamic energy of Beethoven’s Fourth Violin Sonata and Robert Schumann’s dramatic Violin Sonata in D minor.

Irène Duval violin; Connie Shih piano

Summer Evenings IV 2026

The veteran Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is certain about the qualities that propelled Ariel Lanyi to the finals of the Leeds and Rubinstein International Piano Competitions. ‘His playing is precise, nuanced, and virtuosic, but he is no superficial virtuoso,’ he notes. ‘What sets him apart is his ability to delve deeply into the music and to establish a connection with it.’ Lanyi’s thoughtfully-crafted programme concludes with the character studies and atmospheric impressions of Debussy’s second book of Préludes.

Ariel Lanyi piano

Not much more than a wooden shed, its front windows opening onto a lovely valley and distant forests. A stove to protect against the bitter cold, a piano, a chair, a table: This is Gustav Mahler's composing cottage near the idyllic Alpine village of Toblach, where the composer wrote several of his greatest works. The busy conductor, who only took time to compose during his summer holidays, never found the peace he needed here. Pure relaxation before the word was even invented.

Gustav Mahler Music Weeks

Gustav Mahler Cultural Center Dobbiaco

Be there at Dominion Energy Center for intimate early evenings in Mooney Hall. Chamber music masterworks performed by members of the Richmond Symphony and friends. Settle into your seat for an enchanted hour of music. Then stroll downtown for dinner.

Summer Serenades 2

Dominion Energy Center

Admired for the strength and conviction of his individual interpretations and phenomenal technical command at the keyboard, George Xiaoyuan Fu has been hailed by The Arts Desk as ‘one of the most exciting young pianists of our time, no question’. The American musician, a seasoned composer as well as performer, presents a programme that reflects the breadth of his artistry and profound feeling for the piano’s tonal colours and textural nuances.

George Xiaoyuan Fu piano

The concert begins with Mozart’s Trio in E major, a graceful and lyrical work highlighting his gift for chamber music. From there, the program moves to the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Maurice Ravel, the great French composer of the early 20th century, whose music shimmers with color and atmosphere.

Saratoga Springs, NY

Skidmore College

The Chiaroscuro Quartet is named for the Italian term for light and shade in art, an apt description of their refined phrasing and ability to illuminate familiar works with their subtle period-instrument tones. The ensemble’s recording of Mendelssohn’s Op. 13 prompted the Observer to conclude that its ‘unadorned sound is a shock to the ears of the best, most arresting kind’. It begins this morning with the intricate musical argument of Beethoven’s final string quartet, considered by the composer Robert Simpson to contain ‘the most sensitively coloured quartet writing in existence’.

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Adrian Brendel’s eloquent artistry, praised by the Guardian for its ‘quiet, unobtrusive musicality,’ will be familiar to Wigmore Hall audiences, thanks not least to his performances as a long-serving member of the Nash Ensemble and frequent collaborations with like-minded artists. He is joined this evening by Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon, a consummate chamber musician renowned for the clarity and singing line of his playing.

Adrian Brendel cello; Dénes Várjon piano

Texas Festival Orchestra - Season Closing Concert

Round Top Festival Institute

“From Man to Myth” considers how larger-than-life personalities capture the public imagination and, over time, become legend. Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun drifts in with luminous color and sensuous calm, its opening flute line evoking a mythical creature poised between dream and reality. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” was originally dedicated to Napoleon, whom the composer saw as a heroic symbol of a new era—before famously withdrawing the dedication in disillusionment. Monumental in scale and emotional sweep, the work charts struggle, mourning, and hard-won triumph, revealing both the power and fragility behind the making of a myth.

From Man to Myth

Riverwalk Center

Grigory Sokolov

Teatro La Fenice

2nd Festival Chamber Concert: Strauss' Merry Workshop

Munich Residence

The Cleveland Orchestra welcomes back legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman, who headlines an all-Beethoven program at Blossom Music Center. The evening opens with Perlman playing and conducting the composer’s two lyrical romances for violin and orchestra. He then conducts the dramatic Egmont Overture before leading the Orchestra in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, a work celebrated for its bright, rhythmic energy and sweeping spirit.

An Evening with Itzhak Perlman

Blossom Music Center

Darkness, brightness and the moonlit space in between make this Opening Night of the Benoliel Chamber Music Series a treat for every fan of close-enough-to-touch musical experiences, featuring pianist Tanner Jorden and Festival Musicians.

Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Light & Shadow

Jackson Hole High School

Westphalian Music Festival Hamm 2026

An unusual program where Antonio Pappano, Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, demonstrates both his opera experience and his dramatic flair. Vilde Frang interprets Beethoven's Violin Concerto on a 1734 Guarneri. Sarah Jakubiak and Clay Hilley can be heard in Wagner's "Liebestod" act from Tristan und Isolde. In addition to his role as Siegfried, the American heroic tenor has already earned acclaim in the Festspielhaus as the emperor in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Wagner & Beethoven

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Gentle taps on the timpani set the stage for an extraordinary journey, vast and noble. It has remained the gold standard for 300 years, a monumental challenge for composers, orchestras and soloists to aspire to.

Gil Shaham performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Beethoven’s radical transformation of the string quartet as a genre for the expression of profound human emotions speaks with overwhelming force Quatuor Ébène’s programme. The French ensemble continues its Beethoven series at Wigmore Hall with the first of three works commissioned by Count Andreas Razumovsky in 1805, following its complex musical argument with the transcendental power of the composer’s Op. 130 with its original finale, the Everest-like ‘Great Fugue’.

Quatuor Ébène

Join musicians from the Royal Academy of Music as they present an informal concert for people living with dementia and their friends, family and carers. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30pm.

Music for the Moment

A chamber group of Leonidas Kavakos, Kirill Gerstein and members of The Apollon Ensemble unite for a richly-textured programme featuring Beethoven’s elegant String Trio, Dvořák’s spirited Terzetto and Elgar’s deeply expressive Piano Quintet.

Leonidas Kavakos violin; Kirill Gerstein piano; The Apollon Ensemble

Beethoven - Symphonies No. 8 and No. 9

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Beethoven thought: Why have a solo instrument when you can have three people shine at once? The Triple Concerto: three soloists, an orchestra, and enough music to wallpaper the whole of Vienna. Virtuoso elegance, lyrical passages, and a dance-like vitality characterize this wonderful music, which functions like a well-mannered game of skat: one player leads, the others have to keep up.

Skat Round

Gedächtniskirche, Speyer

Lavish dinners, hearty village festivals, birthday parties, and weddings: this is what composers from Mozart's time wrote Harmoniemusik for. Large-scale works for woodwind ensembles with horns and double bass, which were equally effective in the ballroom, the threshing floor, or the village square. Once again, our musicians have chosen an entertaining genre that creates an almost orchestral splendor of sound on stage.

Harmoniemusiken

Beethoven-Haus Bonn

Sonata-Trio-Suite

Bochumer Symphoniker

This is the closing concert of the Nørre Vosborg Chamber Music Festival.
We would like to thank you for a wonderful festival and invite you to coffee and cake during the break.

Nørre Vosborg: Closing concert

Nørre Vosborg

Beethoven - Symphonies No. 2 and No. 3

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe – an ensemble with a special history. Founded in 1981 by young musicians who had met in the EU Youth Orchestra, the ensemble is still democratically organized today. Claudio Abbado was the most important mentor from the very beginning. Today, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is one of Europe's leading chamber orchestras.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Don’t miss this all-Beethoven celebration of cellist András Fejér in his final performance with the Quartet.

Takács Quartet: András Fejér Finale

Lobero Theatre

Concert with Ensemble MidtVest and this year's star soloist Sebastian Klinger. Look forward to experiencing an absolutely world-class cellist.

Nørre Vosborg: EMV and soloist Sebastian Klinger

Zubin Mehta & Rudolf Buchbinder

Amicus Orchestra are delighted to present this programme in collaboration with flautist Caglayan Barbaros.

Amicus Orchestra & Caglayan Barbaros

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

On this evening, the Chamber Orchestra of New York presents a varied programme from three eras. Ravel's »Boléro« in particular is one of the most popular works in the orchestral literature. But Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and above all Beethoven's 7th Symphony are also extremely popular. The audience can therefore look forward to an exciting concert experience.

Chamber Orchestra of New York / Salvatore Di Vittorio

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien complete their multi-season survey of Beethoven’s violin sonatas with three contrasting works. They set the high spirits of Op. 30 No. 3 ahead of the composer’s last essay in the genre. ‘Interpreters must be able to dream, to enthuse,’ noted the great violinist Carl Flesch about Beethoven’s Op. 96. ‘The flower must blossom in their souls.’ The same could be said for the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata, with its heroic writing for both instruments.

Alina Ibragimova violin; Cédric Tiberghien fortepiano

Renowned "Renaissance woman" Hélène Grimaud returns to Caramoor for a deeply poetic recital exploring the profound emotional landscapes of the "Three Bs"—Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Known for a visceral intensity that has captivated Caramoor audiences since her 1998 debut and a celebrated 2015 residency, Grimaud brings her trademark technical control to a program of autumnal masterpieces. From the intimate, variation-rich Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 to the nostalgic textures of Brahms’ Fantasies and the monumental architecture of Bach’s Chaconne, this performance showcases the same unapologetically personal artistry that defines her work as both a world-class pianist and a dedicated wildlife conservationist.

Hélène Grimaud,  piano

Venetian Theater at Caramoor

At the end of 2022, Roderick Cox made his acclaimed debut with the Duisburg Philharmonic, and now the orchestra and conductor are continuing their successful collaboration. For his return to the Ruhr region, the American conductor has programmed Richard Strauss's "Ein Heldenleben," a kind of musical self-portrait of the self-confident composer. In this symphonic poem, the hero falls in love, defies his critics, and, after a successful battle, carries out his work of peace before withdrawing from the world. Strauss's "Heldenleben" is sonically and visually powerful, but it has also brought him accusations of self-glorification. Before the late Romantic, another titan, Ludwig van Beethoven, appears on the program: his fifth and final piano concerto is in the "heroic" key of E-flat major and takes the solo concerto into equally sonicly powerful symphonic territory. With brutal chords, the piano and orchestra vie for the upper hand right from the start, while the solo instrument is allowed to sing its soulful sigh in the second movement with a beautiful melody. This is in the very best hands with Boris Giltburg , who was Artist in Residence in Duisburg during the 2017/2018 season: The world-class pianist has not only recorded all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, but also his five piano concertos. A true Beethoven expert, then!

Hero's Life

CityPalais

Beethoven - Symphonies No. 5 and No. 6

Described by The Guardian as possessing 'innate pianism, with musical sensibilities and a daring honed by a lifetime of experience', Leonskaja will perform three piano sonatas in full, by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert – showcasing these composers’ mastery of the sonata form.

Elisabeth Leonskaja In Recital

Barbican Centre

With the famous funeral march from the Eroica , Beethoven creates an unforgettable atmosphere of solemnity and dignity. It is among the most powerful expressions of grief and loss in music history. In his Symphonic Metamorphoses, Richard Strauss transforms musical themes, drawing listeners into a profound musical journey that moves between somber darkness and radiant light. Maurice Duruflé's Requiem blends Gregorian chant with impressionistic soundscapes, creating a unique, meditative atmosphere. With its delicate, almost ethereal harmonies and the full power of the orchestra and choir, it transports the audience to a place of reflection and peace.

8th Symphony Concert

Dom St. Petrus

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.

Staatskapelle on tour

Stiftskirche St. Servatius

Beethoven wanted his Ninth Symphony—led here by James Gaffigan—to enact a journey of transformation, exploring themes of struggle and salvation, community and compassion. Although he wasn’t religious in the conventional sense, he found spiritual sustenance in his art. Even in our hyperpolarized times, Beethoven’s Ninth feels like a unifying force across the globe, a cultural common good. For its creator, who drafted, revised, and perfected his final symphony over more than 30 years, its meaning was urgent, immediate, vital: In those decades he saw the humanist ideals of the French Revolution trampled by repressive regimes.

Gaffigan Conducts Beethoven 9

Davies Symphony Hall

Our 2025/2026 season culminates with the ultimate symphony — Beethoven’s Ninth, featuring an all-star cast of soloists chosen by Music Director Xian Zhang and joined by the massed forces of the Seattle Symphony Chorale. Revolutionary, epic and at 200 years old, still as driven as Beethoven’s own sense of our shared destiny, he crowned this summit of his music with the stunning addition of voices in a song for humanity, hope and joy. Xian pairs it with Artist in Focus Steven Mackey’s RIOT, for chorus, vocalist and the composer himself on electric guitar. This inspiring music places race and resilience in the foreground with a setting of words by Tracy K. Smith — culminating in positive affirmation and a celebration of perseverance, commitment and community.

Xian Conducts Beethoven 9

Benaroya Hall

Beethoven / Šostakovič

Imperial Baths

Beethoven - Symphonies No. 1, No. 4 and No. 7

The power of this symphony never relents, from those iconic opening moments to the bright light of the finale. The end of the third movement is electric, strings hovering in suspense before erupting into one of the most triumphant transitions in classical music, from tension to pure release.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Few orchestras can currently boast in their dramaturgy an opera premiere by the great Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. The previously unplayed and unpublished version of the opera Mariken von Nimègue will be a gift for all of us lovers not only of his music. Chief conductor Tomáš Netopil will take over the performance.

Beethoven – Pastoral Symphony

Join London Concert Choir for an evening of drama and entertainment, with thoughtfully chosen selections from four operas, spanning creative periods from the Baroque to the late Romantic. Here is a chance to enjoy this great storytelling art form in miniature, featuring specially devised suites of orchestral movements, arias and choruses from Handel’s Semele, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

A Night at the Opera

Cadogan Hall 

The Times once enthusiastically described Håkan Hardenberger as "the best trumpeter in the galaxy" after a concert. Whether it's a classic concerto by Johann Nepomuk Hummel or new works by composers like Mark-Anthony Turnage, the Swede breathes life into the music with his trumpet, this time accompanied by the renowned Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Harding.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Håkan Hardenberger / Daniel Harding

Archduke Rudolph of Austria was the pianist for the premiere of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto—and he also happened to be one of the composer’s most important patrons. To make him shine, Beethoven brought in two of the best players of the day. We’ve got our own trio of all-stars on tap for this program, which includes Schumann’s reflection of life in the Rhineland.

Beethoven Triple Concerto

Orchestra Room

You know the opening. But the real thrill of Beethoven’s Fifth comes from the unrelenting momentum that follows. The transition from the third movement’s suspended hush into the finale is unforgettable.

For Schools: Open Rehearsal with Anja Bihlmaier

The final concert requires an adequate program that will bring the season to its climax. Such a program shall feature works by the most influential composers in history who are of fundamental importance for our orchestra. We have listened to the music by Ludwig van Beethoven several times during the season, and at the last evening the time has come for his works for piano.

Beethoven. Brahms

Rudolfinum

Thomas Adès’ Alchymia has been hailed as ‘simply one of the best chamber music compositions of our time’ (Guardian). Inspired by the music of Shakespearean England, but with a voice all of its own, this major work for string quartet and basset clarinet was premiered in 2021 and has become an instant classic. Musica Viva Australia is excited to present the London-based Doric String Quartet performing this ‘magical and arresting’ (The Times) work with the ‘brilliance, charisma and sensitivity’ (The Mercury) of Australian clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff.

Musica Viva Australia presents Doric String Quartet & Lloyd Van’t Hoff

Queensland Conservatorium

Marie Jacquot is one of the leading conductors of her generation. According to one critic, her interpretations are »more inventive than innovation-driven, they float, they arise autonomously, without the gesture of emancipating oneself from anything.« In Dresde1, the French maestra will present two key works: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, a piece of luminous clarity with a symphonic breadth and formal balance, complemented by Béla Bartók’s »Concerto for Orchestra«, which the composer wrote in 1943 while living as an émigré in America. This is a work of irrepressible energy and subtle irony, combining counterpoint, Hungarian folklore and late Romantic opulence.

Symphony Concert N° 11

Semperoper Dresden

Four remarkable artists with a passion for chamber music have come together to form an exciting new piano-and-strings quartet, destined to become an audience favorite.  For decades, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, together with their piano trio partner the late Joseph Kalichstein, were hailed as “chamber music royalty” (Washington Post), a distinction that equally applies to their ESPRESSIVO! partners—the stellar violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, a founding member of the Dover Quartet, and the award-winning pianist Anna Polonsky, one of chamber music’s most sought-after collaborators.  Their program includes favorites by Beethoven and Schumann and a reprise of Richard Danielpour’s Book of Hours, co-commissioned by the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle and premiered on our series at Olin Auditorium in 2007.

Espressivo!

Fisher Center at Bard

Season Finale

La Jolla Woman's Club

Following the conclusion of our 25/26 subscription season, join us for “A Community Gift and Dream — for the Love of Music” June 13-14, 2026.

A Community Gift and Dream — for the Love of Music

Overture Center for the Arts

Westphalian Music Festival Hamm

Gut Kump, Hamm

Kurhaus, Hamm

“My chief aim was to awaken and permanently instill spiritual feelings not only in the singers but in the listeners,” said Beethoven of his immense and moving Missa solemnis (“Solemn Mass”). Observing the structure of a traditional Catholic mass, Missa solemnis is a vibrant paean to faith but also to humanity. This concert concludes Music Director Ken-David Masur’s final season as well as the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus’ 50th anniversary celebration. As Beethoven penned at the top of his score: “From the heart: may it go to the heart.”

Masur Conducts Missa Solemnis

Warner Grand Theater

The Budapest Festival Orchestra will conclude its guest tour in Bad Kissingen with a vibrant and colorful program. The concert will open with a choral work by Fanny Mendelssohn, a talented member of the Mendelssohn family who remained unrecognized, as orchestra members are keen a cappella singers and committed to the oeuvre of rarely performed composers. After the orchestra musicians, Gramophone Award-winning Julia Fischer’s violin from 1742 will take center stage. The soloist for Beethoven’s lone, grand violin concerto is not only a violinist: she is also a pianist, a quartet player, an instructor and the founder of a youth orchestra. As a reviewer wrote, “She has a pure tone, impeccable intonation, and immaculate technique, but she also has a warm heart and a radiant soul”. The concert will be concluded by the serene symphony of Johannes Brahms, written when he had finally stepped out from Beethoven’s shadow.

Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 29, 2025 - Dec 31, 2026

New Year's Eve concert · Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock

Jul 30 - Aug 20, 2026

Beethoven & Mozart in the Municipal House · Prague Music Orchestra

Aug 5, 2026

Trio Fortuny · Festival Perelada

Aug 6, 2026

Benoliel Chamber Music Series: From the Heart · Grand Teton Music Festival

Aug 7, 2026

High Festival Level · Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Aug 2, 2026

Dalí Quartet · Chapel Restoration

Aug 1, 2026

Danish String Quartet · Maverick Concerts

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