It has taken nearly 40 years for Maurizio Pollini to complete his recordings of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. The end of the journey comes not with the great, final sonatas, but mid-way through. The ...

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 ...

Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: I. Allegro vivace Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: II. Adagio grazioso Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op ...

Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was not ...

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 ...

Andras Schiff explores Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in an exclusive series of lecture recitals at London's Wigmore Hall. Listen to him dissect Piano Sonata no. 18, Op 31 no 3 in E flat major.

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 ...

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.

Live at the BBC Proms, Sir András Schiff plays Beethoven's final three piano sonatas, works of Olympian virtuosity and transcendent, spiritual beauty. Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal ...