Music Dec 13, 2017
The year's not over till you hear Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
by Chiho Iuchi
It's "Beethoven season." The run-up to the new year has long been marked in Japan with performances of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 — known here simply as "daiku" — gloriously performed by large orchestras featuring around 80 instrumentalists and some 100 choir ...