Beethoven's output for cello and piano spanned his lifetime -- starting with the two sonatas he composed in 1796; two near ...

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 ...

The Music: Rather than ploughing through the 32 Beethoven sonatas in chronological order, Jonathan Biss has picked four sonatas to launch his set that includes three distinctly un-obvious works.

Writing a warm if inevitably parti pris appreciation of Stephen Kovacevich’s nine-CD and 12-year project, producer John Fraser speaks of ‘an artist of almost self-punishing honesty and integrity’.

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 ...

Camerata Pacifica ushers in the New Year with four achingly beautiful chamber works for piano and viola by Beethoven, ...

Camerata Pacifica will present a series of chamber concerts featuring works for viola and piano by Beethoven, Schubert, and ...

This is the second volume of Schiff’s projected cycle of all 32 sonatas to be recorded live (although there’s no evidence of an audience on this disc) in the Tonhalle, Zurich, over the coming year or ...

What a difference a day makes at Benaroya Hall! On Sunday afternoon, there was Lang Lang, all spectacular flash and dash at the piano, playing two concerti with the Seattle Symphony to a packed house ...

No two of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are alike. Even more than in his string quartets, which similarly span his creative life, he seemed to make new strides in form and motivic development in each ...