Like so much of Beethoven’s late music, the last three piano sonatas are dense, complex and without parallel in the history of the keyboard. The challenges may be forbidding but the rewards are huge.
On March 4, 2022, Steinway & Sons will release The Last Sonatas of Beethoven, Op. 109, 110, and 111, marking pianist Gerardo Teissonnière’s debut on the label. Teissonnière – who began his musical ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. András Schiff’s cycle of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, which ended ...
Andras Schiff explores Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in an exclusive series of lecture recitals at London's Wigmore Hall. In this final instalment, listen to him dissect Piano Sonata no 30, Op 109 in E ...
SAN DIEGO — Gustavo Romero’s summertime recitals here, under the auspices of the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library of La Jolla, have turned into a cottage industry. In 1999, the young American pianist ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Paul Lewis explained that he had conceived his concert of late Beethoven sonatas and Ballades and Intermezzi by Brahms as a way of ...
It was fascinating to listen to Alexei Lubimov playing Beethoven's last three sonatas on an Alois Graff piano of 1828, just a few days after hearing Maurizio Pollini's magisterial accounts of the same ...
A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to enter the inner space of our thoughts and feelings.’ Hmm. In his latest ...