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 ...
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 ...
Discovering Music. Beethoven: Symphony No. 8. Audio, 20 minutesDiscovering Music Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's most playful symphony ...
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 UK’s leading scholar on Beethoven has found that the famous opening of the Fifth Symphony began life with a totally different purpose... Classical connoisseur, and music novice alike will ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "There is a time in the piano music world: before the 'Waldstein' Sonata and after the 'Waldstein' ...
With even his stern face and wild artist's hair as iconic as his music, it’s not easy to remember that Ludwig van Beethoven was once a struggling up-and-comer. But at the end of the 18 th century and ...
Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear received a sustained round of applause just for walking on stage on Sunday afternoon. Clearly, the near-capacity audience at the Royal Conservatory's Koerner Hall was ...
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.” ...
Camerata Pacifica will present a series of chamber concerts featuring works for viola and piano by Beethoven, Schubert, and ...