As a year of great peril for the performing arts draws to a close, with concert cancellations putting a major dampener on celebrations of the 250th anniversary of composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rattle has come up with a first in the recording history of our country with this magnificent release. Michael Houstoun delivers the complete Beethoven piano sonatas on 14 CDs, housed in a sturdy and ...

English pianist Paul Lewis released the first volume of his complete survey of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in 2005. Over the next two years he toured Europe and the United States, performing cycles ...

Hungarian pianist Jeno Jando may rightly be proclaimed the utility infielder of classical piano. He has on his resume all of Mozart's piano sonatas and piano concertos, every Beethoven sonata, every ...

The recital, “Finale in C,” is the final recital in Wei’s “Complete Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Concert Series,” which ...

It was barely 10:01 a.m. when pianist Stewart Goodyear sat at a Steinway concert grand at the Mondavi Center. Time was of the essence, for this concert performance would not end until 13 hours later.

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 ...