The following article first appeared in 1999 as part of a nine-part series on the Beethoven symphonies, which was published in advance of a complete performance in O.C. by John Eliot Gardiner and his ...
Before we go to Los Angeles to hear the L.A. Philharmonic at the grand opening of its new concert hall, we spend a few minutes in the Philharmonie, home of the Berlin Philharmonic. They play the ...