Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Pianists in studios and music schools often collaborate to perform all 32 of Beethoven’s piano ...
A funny thing about Beethoven, music and politics. He was deeply engaged by the promise and disappointment of Napoleon and intended to dedicate his Symphony No. 3 to the French leader — until he ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On January 31, pianist Rudolf Buchbinder's live performance (as pianist and ...
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 ...
A wonderful box set of all 32 of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, performed by the veteran Italian virtuoso, Maurizio Pollini, has been issued on Deutsche Grammophon/ Universal Classics. His ...
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 ...
Beethoven: The Last Three Piano Sonatas with the Hsu siblings: Ashley Hsu (Piano’15); Andrew Hsu (Piano ’13 and Composition ’15); and Daniel Hsu (Piano). Andrew and Daniel came to Curtis in 2008, ...
Before Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) changed the direction of music forever, he was a pianist...and a pretty good one to boot. Beethoven could play fiddle too, but, then again, he was no Paganini ...
With typical assertiveness, Beethoven once asked, “With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength?” You might, indeed, measure the strength of his genius with a number of other great composers.
They stand as a monolith in the piano repertoire, 32 sonatas that explore a vast range of the human experience. From the ardors of the “Pathetique” (Op. 13) to the storms of the “Appassionata” (Op. 57 ...
Our series of Beethoven piano sonatas continues with the pair of short sonatas that make up Beethoven's Op. 49. Kirill Gerstein plays the Piano Sonata, Op. 49, No. 1, and Louis Lortie has the Piano ...
Camerata Pacifica will present a series of chamber concerts featuring works for viola and piano by Beethoven, Schubert, and ...