Open Rehearsal: Alan Gilbert conducts an all-Beethoven program featuring Kirill Gerstein, Joshua Bell, and Steven Isserlis

The Triple Concerto has long been the stepchild of Beethoven’s concerto compositions, the work least often played and most severely criticized. To be sure, the presence of three soloists sometimes leads to more repetition than we expect from Beethoven, but at the same time the sheer breadth of the w...

Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony wonderfully combines a relaxed and lyrical element with a mood of exuberantly aggressive high spirits.