Igor Levit’s first recording for Sony was of Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas, and his second of Bach’s six keyboard partitas. His latest release features monumental works by both of those ...

Between appearances in Germany, Spain, China and Australia this year, Jan Lisiecki, has also found time to release an album featuring all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos. Recorded late last year ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Nannette Streicher has been marginalized by history, but she was one of Europe’s finest keyboard manufacturers. By Patricia Morrisroe ...

While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...

While famed German composer Ludwig van Beethoven never visited the desert, a piano he always wanted, along with a rare modern piano and another centuries-old instrument, will be showcased at the first ...

The canary-yellow refuse truck rumbles along the narrow street, past bubble tea shops and squat apartment buildings, blasting into the chilly night air a tinny rendition of Beethoven’s “Fur Elise”. To ...