Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist ... The first nine violin sonatas were written in five years but represented an incredible creative trajectory breaking new boundaries at every ...

While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...

In considering an Artist of the Year, it is inevitable that we look beyond a contribution to the range of excellence on record, although Igor Levit’s complete cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas ...

What a way to open the Proms season Katie Derham It kicked off with Tom Coult's wondrous BBC commission St John's Dance and then things got intense with Igor Levit at the piano for Beethoven Piano ...

Among the influential admirers he met at this time was Count Ferdinand Waldstein, later immortalised by the dedication of one of Beethoven’s sonatas. See also: Beethoven's ‘Waldstein’ Sonata: a guide ...