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 ...
Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...
Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer François-Frédéric Guy, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 9 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer François-Frédéric Guy, Piano Sonata for Piano No.
The three op 31 sonatas, all written in 1802, sound lean and coherent on an 1810 piano, if occasionally things feel a little too well-mannered Ein Neuer Weg (A New Way) is the title of Andreas ...
Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...
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 ...
Andras Schiff has called Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 ("Hammerklavier") "a monument of impenetrability" with moments of humor and "unfathomable depths of tragedy and loss." Beethoven's 32 piano ...
Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is reaching another milestone this summer: for the 49th time in his career, he will perform all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. He’ll accomplish this at the Edinburgh ...
Sonata for Piano No. 21, 'Waldstein' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Kun Woo Paik, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 20 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Kun Woo Paik, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 16 Kun Woo Paik, ...