While what happened on Friday night at Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall didn’t reach that level of career breakthrough, it was ...

He studied at Chetham’s School of Music and later with Alfred Brendel, who significantly impacted his career. Lewis is known for his comprehensive performances of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and ...

At the heart of the story lies a brutal crime of passion. A husband murders his wife, an amateur pianist, who had been enjoying chamber music sessions with a violinist. There was nothing illicit ...

2 No. 1 and the vivacious tarantella of the E flat major Sonata, Op. 31 No. 3 – Presto, con fuoco, indeed. A habit of the occasional missed note didn't surface in the "Hammerklavier". Although ...

The Austrian pianist Artur Schnabel was the first person to record a complete set of the Beethoven piano sonatas ... classes were attended by Alfred Brendel and Daniel Barenboim.

Daniele (44) recently performed all 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven, incidentally composed between 1795 and 1822 — a first in this country, in its designated sequence — spread across four ...

With 11 Grammy nominations ... From one of the great Beethoven interpreters, to the piano titan himself. Beethoven’s piano works are some of the most widely admired, from his ‘Moonlight’ Sonata to ...

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 ...

The great American pianist was 93 when ... and the first American pianist to record the complete sonatas and piano concertos of Beethoven. In 1997, a collection of Mr. Sherman’s writings was ...

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 ...