Note to Readers: This column is switching gears to review the complete Andras Schiff and Idil Biret Beethoven Sonata cycles. One sonata will be addressed at a time. This will be more orderly than ...

We continue our survey of all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, one a day, with a performance by Nikolai Demidenko of the Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Op. 78, subtitled "For Therese." ...

In the autumn of 1957, Walter Legge staged a Beethoven festival in honour of Otto Klemperer at the Royal Festival Hall. All nine symphonies were performed and the five piano concertos with Claudio ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Slowly spiralling chords in the right hand. Deep, sinking bass in the left. The opening to Beethoven’s ...

A previously unheard Beethoven piano sonata is to be performed on Sunday in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. A new completion of a Beethoven piano sonata will receive its world premiere this weekend in ...

Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...

It is always a worthy question to ask when a pairing like Beethoven's notorious "Kreutzer" sonata with Franck's frankly demonic violin sonata, not to mention the inspired inclusion of Kreisler's ...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, is at the keyboard for Beethoven's playful Piano Sonata no. 10 in G Major, at the Schwetzingen Festival in Germany.