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 ...

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 ...

Olli Mustonen’s playing never permits a passive response. One can enthusiastically nod or one can profusely object, but the listener is asked to take a side and react.

Turkish pianist Idil Biret (b. 1941) has been a household name at a number of record labels, most notably EMI and Naxos. A student of Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot, Biret is steeped in the ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

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 ...

Getting a head start on the impending Beethoven 2020 festivities, Canada's Jan Lisiecki has today surprised us with Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, his fifth ...

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.” ...

Late last year, to get the #Beethoven250 celebrations started, Deutsche Grammophon released Ludwig van Beethoven: the new Complete Edition, comprising 118 CDs, 3 Blu-ray audio discs and 2 DVDs, as ...

Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .