The French pianist launches a new series centred on Beethoven's many sets of theme and variations for solo piano Cédric Tiberghien has just released a new album, Variation[s], on Harmonia Mundi. It ...

Pianist Shai Wosner performs Beethoven's Diabelli Variations–a collection of 33 variations based on a waltz by Anton Diabelli–to be released on Onyx Classics on September 29, 2023.

MEHMARI: You know, that's a very notorious case that Beethoven took a very mediocre theme from Giovanni - variations (playing piano). And then he wrote the most fantastic sets of variations upon ...

Schiff caps his CD traversal of the 32 sonatas with Beethoven’s most immense piano work – the Diabelli Variations ... complex dissections of a simple theme, he plays them twice – first ...

Listen to the self-assured opening contrasted with the gentle charm of the second theme, to the Mozartian grace of the Largo and to the Rondo finale, arguably the merriest of any Beethoven concerto ...

Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano ... grand to Beethoven. If you are in any doubt of the sheer versatility of Beethoven’s music, listen to the beautiful simplicity of the second ...

And through March 6 at the Ahmanson Theatre, Jane Fonda stars in Moisés Kaufman’s play “33 Variations,” which delves into the origins and mysteries of Beethoven’s longest piano work.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano performed in two special concerts. The Colorado Cello Quartet—David Requiro, Meta Weiss, Alice Yoo, and Matthew ...

They appeal to performers who have excelled in Beethoven’s late piano sonatas ... of Diabelli’s chirpy little theme, and some of the lighter variations may be heard as a parody of it, but ...