Jon Batiste joins us at the piano to play his reimaginings of Beethoven, and more. His new album is called Beethoven Blues. Also, we hear from visual artist Mickalene Thomas. She puts Black women in ...

Beethoven's Choral Symphony No. 9 in D minor has once again topped the ABC Classic 100, being chosen as Australia's greatest piece of classical music of all time. Every year since 2001, ABC Classic ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent "Ode to Joy," premiered on May 7, 1824. We recently passed its bicentennial. The Ninth was greeted as a masterpiece from the outset and ...

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them. If you’re performing ...