While earning a master’s degree in piano at the Peabody Institute, Matthew Bengtson learned about early keyboard instruments — including the fortepiano popular during the time of Mozart and Beethoven.

For this weekend’s concerts by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, music director Stéphane Denève chose Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto with, for vivid contrast, Carlos ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra recreated the composer’s famous Akademie program of 1808, a marathon that included a staggering ...