Brilliant Beethoven
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis with the Dresden State Opera
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Type: Mass
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden
Choir: The Chorus of the Semperoper Dresden
Soloists: Rene Pape, Emily Magee, Petra Lang
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Location: Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany
Year: 2005Bee...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 1
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Type: Symphony No.1
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Orchestra: Berliner Philhamoniker
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Location: Berlin Philhamonic Concert Hall
Year: 2001Beethoven’s First Symphony is a bold and brilliant debut that bridges Classical elegance with a hint of revolutionary spirit. Premie...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 2
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Type: Symphony No.1
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Orchestra: Berliner Philhamoniker
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Location: Berlin Philhamonic Concert Hall
Year: 2001Beethoven was deeply depressed when he realized his hearing loss was probably irreversible. In 1802 he wrote a private letter to his...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 3
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Type: Classical
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica”
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmoniker
Location: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Italy
Year: 2008Abbado’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” captur...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 4
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Type: Classical
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmoniker
Location: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Italy
Year: 2008Claudio Abbado’s performance of Symphony No. 4 brings elegance, and warmth t...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 5
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Type: Classical
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmoniker
Location: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Italy
Year: 2008Claudio Abbado’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 captures the work’s fa...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 6
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Type: Classical Music
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Program: Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Year: 2008Claudio Abbado conducts this celebrated symphony with a calm, finely shaped sense of nature’s changing moods. He shapes the symphony as a sequence of u...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 7
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Type: Classical Music
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Program: Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Year: 2008In Symphony No. 7, Beethoven builds an entire world of rhythm, driving the music forward with a physical energy. From the expansive introduction to the...
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Beethoven Symphony No. 8
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Type: Classical Music
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Program: Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Year: 2008This festival performance of Symphony No. 8 in F major, captures Claudio Abbado leading the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in one of the most refined inter...
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Beethovens Symphony No. 9
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Type: Classical Concert
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Performed by: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Waldbuhne Amphitheatre, Germany
Year: 2013This concert was a magical evening for all ages! Held in Berlin’s beautiful open-air Waldbühne amphitheater, the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by ...
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Maurizio Pollini plays Beethoven
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Type: Classical Music
Program: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto in G major
Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Soloist: Maurizio Pollini
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Location: Culture Center, Switzerland
Festival: The Lucerne Festival
Year: 2004Fall into the delights of Beethoven performed by l...
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Nobuyuki Tsujii at the Summer Gala Concert
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Type: Classical Concert
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Piano Soloist: Nobuyuki Tsujii
Performed by: Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Location: Mariinsky Theater, Russia
Year: 2012Nobuyuki Tsujii’s concert at the White Nights Festival was a stunning display of his technical brilliance and emotional depth....
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Itzhak Perlman & Friends: Beethoven at the Israel Philharmonic
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Type: Classical Concert
Conductor: Itzhak Perlman
Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, Israel
Soloists: Navah Perlman, Giora Schmidt, Zuill Bailey
Program: Beethoven
Year: 2011A celebratory evening in Tel Aviv, where Itzhak Perlman leads the IPO through ...
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Sublime: Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto and Beethoven's 7th Symphony
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Type: Orchestra
Orchestra: Insula Orchestra
Conductor: Nicholas Angelich
Location: La Seine Musicale, Paris
Year: 2018Beethoven Concertos are dynamic and powerful pieces that will thrill audiences of all ages. The "Emperor Concerto" is known for its grandeur and virtuosic piano passages, while...
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Europe Gala Concert from Palermo, Sicily
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Type: Orchestra
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Violinist: Gil Shaham
Location: Teatro Massimo, Sicily
Year: 2002Watching this concert from opera house Teatro Massimo in Sicily is a musical feast where Beethoven, Brahms, and Dvořák are the chefs, and Claudio Abbado ...
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Beethoven Gala Concert from Monte Carlo
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Type: Gala Concert
Location: Prince's Palace, Monaco
Performed by: The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Soloist: Nelson Freire
Conductor: Kazuki Yamada
Year: 2019The Gala Concert from Monte Carlo is an elegant blend of music and location. Filmed in the Prince’s Palace courtyard, enjoy this me...
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
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Type: Piano Concerto
Location: Centennial Hall Bochum, Germany
Orchestra: The Berlin State Orchestra
Performed by: Daniel Barenboim
Year: 2016This second movement is the only one marked “mesto” (meaning "sad") in all 32 of Beethoven's sonatas! It's deeply expressive, almost tragic. Most Classic...
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The Easter Concert – Entirely Beethoven
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Type: Classical Music
Composer; Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61; Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (“Pastoral”)
Location: Baden-Baden Festival, Germany
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Soloist: Isabelle Faust
Year: 2015...
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Spring Radiance: Beethoven in Berlin
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Type: Gala Concert
Location: Berlin State Opera
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Soloist: Mikhail Pletnev
Year: 2000Claudio Abbado leads the Berlin Philharmonic in this landmark concert from Berlin, pairing Beethoven’s elegant Piano Concerto No. 2, with the refined Mikha...
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Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major
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Type: Violin Concerto
Location: Rudolfinum, Dvorak Hall, Czech Republic
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Violinist: Lisa Batiashvili
Year: 2022Watching this concert of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major is an enriching experience. This celebrated concerto showcases Be...
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150 Years of the Dresdner Philharmonic Orchestra
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Type: Orchestra
Orchestra: Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Location: Dresden, Germany
Year: 2020Concert celebrating 150 Years of the Dresdner Philharmonic Orchestra featured Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op...
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Final Concert by Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin with the Rotterdam Philharmonic
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Type: Classical Orchestra
Location: De Doelen Concert Hall, Netherlands
Performed by: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Year: 2018In 2018, Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s farewell concert as Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra featured a...
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Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 with Claudio Abbado
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Type: Classical Music
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Company: Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Choir
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Soloists: Karita Mattila, Waltraud Meier, Thomas Quasthoff
Location: Philharmonie, Berlin
Year: 2020Check out this...
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Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15
Type: Piano Solo
Location: Baroque Palace of Vienna, Austria
Pianist: Daniel Barenboim
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 (“Pastoral”)
Year: 2016In his performance of Piano Sonata No. 15, Daniel Barenboim treats the work as a continuous line. T...