During the school year of 2014-2015, world-renowned artists Miriam Fried, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano (01) returned to Curtis for a residency which entailed working with students in a violin and ...

Beethoven Sonata SeriesThe young Japanese pianist Hiroko Sasaki is in the spotlight today as our series of the Beethoven piano sonatas continues. She plays the Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 1, No. 2 in ...

Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was not ...

Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2: No. 2 - 2nd Movement Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2: No. 2 - 3rd Movement Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2: No. 2 - 4th Movement ...

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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 ...

It has been recorded by everyone from Geza Anda to Dieter Zechlin. Forward-looking, iconoclastic modern pianists record it; so do classicists, and big-name stars give it a try. With more than 80 ...

Absolutely; the focus and stamina were such that a sinking would have been impossible. Any difficulties rest with us, and I confess I have a problem with the biggest movements. Like much in late ...

Beethoven’s most popular sonata, the ‘Moonlight’, has been performed and recorded by hundreds of pianists over the past century. Jed Distler compares a judicious selection of recordings The ...

Chloe Hanslip and Danny Driver play Beethoven, recorded at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton. Violinist Chloe Hanslip and pianist Danny Driver give an all-Beethoven programme as part of their ...

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