Beethoven’s massive and confounding Diabelli Variations isn’t the obvious choice for a debut disc, but the young Italian pianist Filippo Gorini seems intently drawn to the strange drama of this ...

Celebrate Michael Houstoun’s 60th birthday with a special series of concerts, featuring Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Described by pianist Alfred Brendel as “the greatest of all piano works”, the ...

To tackle Beethoven's encyclopedic "Diabelli Variations," as pianist Alfred Brendel did with admirable success in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, means going toe to toe with the great man ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two imposing sets of variations — Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Beethoven’s Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz ...

The Music: When, in 1819, music publisher Anton Diabelli invited Schubert, Czerny, Hummel, Liszt and Beethoven to write a variation on his, let’s be frank, spectacularly rubbish waltz theme, Beethoven ...

Arena Stage opened this season with a play that riffs on an improbable work by Ludwig van Beethoven, the "Diabelli" Variations. Moisés Kaufman's "33 Variations," which runs through the end of this ...

As the musical world mourns the celebrated pianist, we assess his wide recording legacy and pick the 12 best, from Russian rarities to quickfire Beethoven In the two decades before he retired from ...

In 1819, Anton Diabelli, a Viennese music publisher, composed a little waltz and sent it to dozens of composers—he wanted each of them to write and send him a single variation, which he’d publish ...

(33) Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli, 'Diabelli Variations' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Paul Lewis, Piano It’s the details that betray Lewis’s disengagement. He underplays the waltz theme’s ...