Discover the best recordings of Beethoven's incredible piano sonatas on CD - click on the links to preview and buy them. “Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is ...

Many conservatory students could have played the finale of Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata ... of the great exercises in keyboard virtuosity. There were many beautiful things in Brendel ...

Brendel read his essay “Musical Character(s) in Beethoven Piano Sonatas” from his book “Alfred Brendel on Music.” The premise of his lecture was that “perception of character and ...

The likeliest choice was one of the 32 piano sonatas, from a cherished collection ... Richter, Barenboim, Brendel. I couldn’t or wouldn’t listen. I disliked Beethoven’s bombast: the melodramatic ...

Unfolding over more than a decade, this has been a labour of love, now collected into a box set of 11 ... Beethoven. It was only when he witnessed a recital of Haydn sonatas by the great Russian ...

It’s usually not a violinist, but a strong — and strong-minded — pianist who is responsible for the three-concert cycles of the 10 great ... sonatas. A Beethoven violin-and-piano cycle ...

My idea is to sidestep the rightly vaunted Beethoven celebrities (Claudio Arrau, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Alfred Brendel ... 1971 set of the Beethoven sonatas with Anton Ginsburg says it ...

As recordings of Beethoven’s piano sonatas arrive in ever increasing numbers it is helpful to present a distinctive viewpoint. Angela Hewitt comes to the music with expertise honed in the ...

Alfred Brendel introduces Schubert's Sonata in B flat major D960 for piano.

Beethoven is known for crossing all sorts of musical boundaries, and the opening to his "Kreutzer" Sonata for Violin and Piano is a brilliant example. Beethoven himself said that the sonata is ...