Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is reaching another milestone this summer: for the 49th time in his career, he will perform all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. He’ll accomplish this at the Edinburgh ...
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 Viktoria Mullova, Violin Alasdair Beatson, Piano Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 Viktoria Mullova, Violin Alasdair Beatson, Piano ...
Sonata for Piano No. 4 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Martin Roscoe, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 19 Martin Roscoe, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 20 Ludwig van Beethoven, ...
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 ...
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Gilles Vonsattel first performed with Camerata Pacifica in 2017 and is now their principal pianist. He has played many Beethoven piano sonatas, but has been “genuinely” surprised by some that are ...
Maurice Ravel famously said of his own Sonata for violin and piano that both instruments are “essentially incompatible”. But when German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov ...
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 ...