Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

If the idea of two discs of cello and piano music – even Beethoven’s – sounds a touch intimidating, any such concerns drop away in the presence of playing of this standard. Perényi offers tawny, gloss ...

As a student, Levit spent years meticulously polishing a single piano sonata. In many ways it taught him all he knows about this ‘no bullshit’ composer who wrote music of the future Opus 2, No 2. The ...

The pianist’s severe, analytical style engages with two of the most challenging works in the repertoire to produce a disc of compelling, muscular authority It took Maurizio Pollini more than 30 years ...

What’s a little less Lang Lang and a little less Haydn in the over-the-top final weeks of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s exceedingly generous centennial season? Gustavo Dudamel had planned a ...

Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman make the case for exploring Beethoven's symphonies in their piano duet arrangements by Xaver Scharwenka Transcriptions and arrangements such as those of composer-pianist ...

The joy of Beethoven and the power of music were on display in Tokyo, as three soloists with disabilities performed on a customised AI piano. An extraordinary self-playing piano is using artificial ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Pierre-Laurent Aimard juxtaposes the master with other troublemaking composers “so that we understand better what Beethoven meant.” ...

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