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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 ...

A previous performance from Elschenbroich and Grynyuk at the Fidelio Cafe, with its mover and shaker Raffaello Morales as the pageturnerAll images by Matthew Johnson Part of the charm and the ...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas cover a dazzling amount of stylistic ground, from the intimate and crystalline to the grandiose. And that diversity is present from the very beginning, as Sunday night's ...

It was barely 10:01 a.m. when pianist Stewart Goodyear sat at a Steinway concert grand at the Mondavi Center. Time was of the essence, for this concert performance would not end until 13 hours later.

Pianist Kim Sun-wook will launch a two-year recital series next month to perform Beethoven’s 32 sonatas, considered by some music scholars as one of the most monumental piano repertoires. Still a ...

A previously unheard Beethoven piano sonata is to be performed on Sunday in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. A new completion of a Beethoven piano sonata will receive its world premiere this weekend in ...

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 ...

The Music: Rather than ploughing through the 32 Beethoven sonatas in chronological order, Jonathan Biss has picked four sonatas to launch his set that includes three distinctly un-obvious works.

Performance Today is looking at the complete set of piano sonatas by Beethoven, and so is pianist Murray Perahia. Perahia was chosen to be the editor of a newly researched Beethoven edition for the ...

Part of the charm and the privilege, of course, is to hear the resonance of strings and piano at such electrifyingly close quarters; a nod here, though it was more of a private event, to the stunning ...