At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and Evgeny Kissin. The pianist is leading a series ...

Formed in 1988, the Amici Ensemble has been part of Aotearoa’s classical music scene for over thirty-five years. Now under ...

REVIEW BY Richard Amey. Summer Classical Favourites concert, Worthing Symphony Orchestra at Assembly Hall, Sunday 18 May ...

When the storm seemed to be especially raging ... Twice, we see Theodulf deeply stirred when Willa plays Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” They’re also both keenly interested in metaphysical ...

See also: Beethoven's ‘Waldstein’ Sonata: a guide to the greatest recordings In 1792 ... Beethoven was several bars adrift from the orchestra and chorus and continued to conduct even as a storm of ...

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 ...

26), demonstrate new approaches to sonata form and dramatic content ... Still, even in the eye of the storm, Beethoven leaves a place for the heroic. Beethoven never had much luck with love or with ...

To experience this year’s Eagle Band performance is to live the dream. Really. The show, “Rhapsody of Dreams,” takes you through the steps of a dream (and nightmare). You’ll see beds being rolled out ...

You might be surprised at how many such moments there can be even among the hellish visions of Liszt’s Après une lecture du Dante: fantasia quasi sonata or the raging storm of Beethoven’s ...

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 most famous of Beethoven’s violin sonatas have nicknames. The Spring is named for its air of pastoral ease – although that choice of name had nothing to do with the composer. The Kreutzer ...

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 ...