The symphony opens with a series of dominant seventh chords ... here until the end of the movement, the music is based on a C major chord. Beethoven repeats theme 1 in the first violins, cellos ...

The first movement is delightfully springy, while Beethoven’s infinite subtleties of ... Eroica' Symphony No. 4 Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' Symphony No. 7 Symphony No. 8 ...

Jun Märkl, who was announced as the ISO’s eighth music director in September, will conduct Beethoven’s 7th Symphony on Saturday ... The maestro’s first “nice concerts” will also be ...

Herbert Blomstedt returns to Symphony Hall to answer the question Schubert reportedly asked himself in his teens, “Who can do ...

Riccardo Chailly’s first recorded Beethoven cycle shows him to be a Classicist ... You can hear music-making of comparable pedigree at the start of the slow movement of the Ninth Symphony. Chailly’s ...

The night’s post-intermission sampling of Ravel and Stravinsky delivered their own fireworks, though of a somewhat more ...