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Bio - Edo de Waart

Edo de Waart

Edo de Waart is Chief Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Read more >

Bio - Bernard Haitink

Bernard Haitink

With an international conducting career that has spanned more than five and a half decades, Amsterdam-born Bernard Haitink is one of today’s most celebrated conductors. Read more >

Beethoven - Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b

Ludwig van Beethoven

Of the four overtures Beethoven wrote for his opera Leonore — later renamed Fidelio — only the one called Leonore no. 3 has gained favor both in the concert hall, where it is much loved, and in the opera house, where it is often played, inappropriately, just before the finale. Read more >

Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 (Eroica)

Ludwig van Beethoven

The story of how the Eroica Symphony got its title is nearly as famous as the music itself. Read more >

Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 (Pastoral)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Our familiar picture of Beethoven, cross and deaf, slumped in total absorption over his sketches, doesn’t easily allow for Beethoven the nature-lover. But he liked nothing more than a walk in the woods, where he could wander undisturbed, stopping from time to time to scribble a new idea on the folded sheets of music paper he always carried in his pocket. Read more >