Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol 1 album review – fresh-as-a-daisy performances from a duo with a gift for storytelling

Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, on period instruments, offer zest-filled and elegant readings of four Beethoven sonatas ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

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 ...
NPR

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas

Andras Schiff has called Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 ("Hammerklavier") "a monument of impenetrability" with moments of humor and "unfathomable depths of tragedy and loss." Beethoven's 32 piano ...
The New York Times

Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them

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 ...
The New York Times

Tackling the Last of Beethoven’s Sonatas

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer The character of many of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas can be evoked by titles like “Tempest” and “Appassionata” or ...
BBC

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight)

The popular nickname of the 'Moonlight' for the second sonata of Op. 27 may be a fair title for the first movement, but the rest of the work contains some of the most turbulent music Beethoven ever ...
Classic FM

Listen to Beethoven epic ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, played on the composer's own piano

This Broadwood piano is identical to the instrument the composer owned. And it was that piano that inspired the composer to write his most famous piece for solo piano, the ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata. In ...
The Guardian

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas – review

Though he is perhaps not as well known to British concert-goers as he might be, the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, now in his mid-60s, is highly regarded elsewhere in Europe, especially as an ...
BBC

Artur Pizarro - The Beethoven Sonata Cycle

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata ...
The New Yorker

Sleepless Nights with András Schiff and Beethoven’s Sonatas

Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...
Classic FM

Jonathan Biss: Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Vol. 1

The Music: Rather than ploughing through the 32 Beethoven sonatas in chronological order, Jonathan Biss has picked four sonatas to launch his set that includes three distinctly un-obvious works.
BBC

Artur Pizarro - The Beethoven Sonata Cycle

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata ...