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 ...

Sonata for Piano No. 30 Artur Pizarro, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 31 Artur Pizarro, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 32 Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Beethoven reportedly said that the three piano sonatas he published as Op. 31 represented a "new path" for his compositional style. That remark may or may not tell us much - it comes down to us from ...

Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

From the early Op. 2 set of sonatas to the famous 'Moonlight', find out why Beethoven's piano sonatas broke the mould - and hear from pianists themselves about how they approach performing them.

Among connoisseurs of pianists of the last century, I have heard little disagreement that one of the finest, a supreme interpreter, intellectual giant and technician of staggering control, was Chilean ...

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 ...

Absolutely; the focus and stamina were such that a sinking would have been impossible. Any difficulties rest with us, and I confess I have a problem with the biggest movements. Like much in late ...