For Beethoven's 250th birthday, James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong are giving us the gift of a complete violin-sonata cycle over the course of the season. These ten beloved works are cornerstones of the ...

Anne-Sophie Mutter is the modern classical record company's dream artist; not only is the 39-year-old German violinist a musician of near peerless virtuosity and unimpeachable integrity, but she is… ...

Maurice Ravel famously said of his own Sonata for violin and piano that both instruments are “essentially incompatible”. But when German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov ...

More info: Biss is in the final year of a three-summer residency performing Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas at the Aspen Music Festival. Three virtuosic musicians are taking deep dives into single ...

A fascinating study in comparisons, and an auspicious DG debut for Vadim Repin and Riccardo Muti. Muti’s conducting of the Concerto is leisurely, at times even a mite imperious, though always flexible ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few years ago Igor Levit released a set of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas that drew great acclaim. It set off ...

Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger is best known for his large-scale oratorios and orchestral works. However, these three sonatas for violin and piano, and the sonata for solo violin, reveal his ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist. His music is treated with a reverence that can sometimes hide the intellect and passion he intended to convey to the audiences of his era. The first ...

The intimacy at the heart of Beethoven’s violin sonatas is eloquently enshrined in these performances by the young French artists Renaud Capuçon and Frank Braley. The 10 works span more than a decade, ...