On Friday, October 14, Cal Performances offered the return of world-renowned violinist Maxim Vengerov after a 15-year absence. Vengerov was joined by pianist Polina Osetinskaya in a program of works ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Beethoven's Broadwood piano is legendary... Having played on Viennese instruments for most of his life, ...

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 ...

From the early Op. 2 set of sonatas to the famous 'Moonlight', find out why Beethoven's piano sonatas broke the mould - and hear from pianists themselves about how they approach performing them.

From solo guitar to virtuosic violin, here are some of the most innovative takes on Beethoven’s iconic piano sonata. In 1801, great composer Ludwig van Beethoven sat down to pen another great piano ...

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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No two of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are alike. Even more than in his string quartets, which similarly span his creative life, he seemed to make new strides in form and motivic development in each ...