Beethoven whittles the world down to its essence in his "Kreutzer" Sonata for violin and piano. Commentator Rob Kapilow demonstrates how, with... Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata Connections Beethoven's ...

As host and violinist Scott Yoo and pianist Anna Polonsky attempt to record Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata, the increasingly irritated composer reminisces about his own history with the piece. What was ...

Scott Yoo, host of “Now Hear This,” performs an excerpt from Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. Filmed at the Sinquefield Music Center at the University of Missouri. I'm Scott Yoo, host of 'Now Hear This' ...

Celebrating a major anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, a new composition and arrangements add to a cycle of creativity that follows one of the brilliant composer’s most popular works. Colin ...

To begin the second in this season’s series of concerts by the Spokane String Quartet, Helen Byrne, its cellist, stepped to ...

A fascinating study in comparisons, and an auspicious DG debut for Vadim Repin and Riccardo Muti. Muti’s conducting of the Concerto is leisurely, at times even a mite imperious, though always flexible ...

Catherine Leonard and Hugh Tinney enjoy a remarkable musical partnership that has been beautifully captured on their first CD for RTÉ lyric fm. When Beethoven died early in 1827, it is said that ...

Violin Concerto In D, Op.61: 1. Allegro ma non troppo Violin Concerto In D, Op.61: 2. Larghetto - Violin Concerto In D, Op.61: 3. Cadenza Fritz Kreisler Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 in A, Op.47 - ...

The controversy started after the first time the original sonata was played. Beethoven had originally dedicated his piece to violinist George Bridgetower (1778–1860). Beethoven and Bridgetower ...

Having made a film about Beethoven ("Immortal Beloved"), and another based on a Tolstoy story starring Danny Huston ("Ivansxtc"), helmer Bernard Rose mashes all these elements together in "The ...

Beethoven is known for crossing all sorts of musical boundaries, and the opening to his "Kreutzer" Sonata for Violin and Piano is a brilliant example. Beethoven himself said that the sonata is written ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "The Mount Olympus for all who perform it..." International violin superstar Midori isn't alone in ...