It came as a revelation when, five years ago, David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra - not then regarded as one of the world's prime recording orchestras - completed a cycle of the Beethoven ...

(Die) Geschöpfe des Prometheus, '(The) Creatures of Prometheus', Movements: Overture Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra David Zinman, Conductor Egmont, Movements: Overture Zurich ...

Dazzling recordings of favourite and less well-known overtures. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 20 January 2014. The Prague Sinfonia Orchestra are on a mission to record all of Rossini’s overtures ...

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the complete Beethoven Symphonies, recorded in Frankfurt. This cycle of Beethoven Symphonies and Overtures was recorded in ...

Yet another set of Beethoven symphonies – meaning yet another set of contentious theories about performance style in general and Beethoven’s metronome markings in particular? Fortunately, the level of ...

AN unheard Beethoven overture, which has been reconstructed by a Dutch composer using a computer program, will have its world premiere by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington next month. In ...