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 ...

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 ...

This recording of Serkin from 1977 highlights a 20th-century great who brought musical purpose and intellectual rigour to every detail Rudolf Serkin ranks among the greatest of 20th-century pianists; ...

Beethoven's association with Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel, Count Waldstein, goes back to the composer's days in Bonn, where they were both connected to the Electoral court. It may well have been ...

The Australian Haydn Ensemble, acclaimed for their fresh and vibrant performances of the music of the Classical era, bring their deep knowledge of historical performance techniques to Beethoven’s ...

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"I have played these pieces my whole professional life and I've taught them and I've heard other people playing them. So, it was really time, in a sense, to do them myself. I felt I was I was ready in ...

Stephen Hough is a famous polymath. He teaches pianists at the Juilliard School in New York, and he’s produced a best-selling iPad app exposing the mechanics of Liszt’s great Piano Sonata in B Minor.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in ...