We thrill to the shrill. Or at least, so I’ve heard. Like much of contemporary life, contemporary music has been increasingly engineered for the outer reaches of pitch and volume. That’s what best ...

In its sheer scale, density of thought and technical requirements, the Hammerklavier presents a more severe test of a pianist's capabilities than any other of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. The trio of ...

Beatrice Rana joins Harriet Smith to talk about finding a path through Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata While lockdown for us lesser mortals meant perhaps finding new ways of cataloguing our CD ...

Beethoven’s massive, daunting, imposing, terrifying, exhilarating, breathtaking “Hammerklavier” Sonata is not Everest. It just seems that way as one compiles a list of roaring adjectives capable of ...

More info: Haefliger will premiere his filmed performance of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, op. 106, ‘Hammerklavier’ AMFS ON APR The Aspen Music Festival has begun re-broadcasting ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Levin's latest CD, Hammerklavier Live, released in November 2020, was ...

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 ...

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Students of deportment and dirty but timid old men will find much to interest them at the Jermyn Street Theatre, where Susie Lindeman is conducting a course in how not to show your knickers. Wearing a ...

Fünfundfünfzig Kilo abgenommen – in vier Jahren! Das ist rekordverdächtig und dürfte diesen Musiker fürs Guinness-Buch der Rekorde qualifizieren. Der Abschmelzungsprozess des Kristian Bezuidenhout ...

Dass Beethoven nicht nur ein Klavier zertrümmerte und Tasten oder Hämmer in die Luft fliegen ließ, weil die Instrumente seiner Zeit noch nicht den Entwicklungsstand hatten, den der virtuose Pianist ...