Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Slowly spiralling chords in the right hand. Deep, sinking bass in the left. The opening to Beethoven’s ...

Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...

Beethoven’s most popular sonata, the ‘Moonlight’, has been performed and recorded by hundreds of pianists over the past century. Jed Distler compares a judicious selection of recordings The ...

A timeless classical music hit, Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is the inspiration for this year's Beethovenfest in Bonn. It's been performed all over the world and has even been sent into outer space.

The spectacular final movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, played with a reactive visualiser. This is stunning. The third movement to Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata (No. 14 in C sharp minor) has ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 A coming novel tells the story of the piano student who was the dedicatee of one of classical music’s most famous works. By Patricia ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith Referring to the Beethoven piano sonata universally known by the evocative nickname “Moonlight” (Op. 27, No. 2), Liszt ...

At its core, the heartfelt documentary “Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements” is an intimate, often vérité look at how hearing loss affects three generations of a close-knit Portland, Ore., ...

Alicia Keys performed a heartfelt rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" for Kobe and Gianna Bryant's Celebration of Life ceremony at the NBA legend's old stomping grounds at Los Angeles'… By ...

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 ...