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 ...

Arrau, mirabile dictu, is still recording Beethoven in his late eighties but his ... the pianist Schnabel recommended should replace him if he failed to complete his own integral recording of the ...

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each ...

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 ...

CMNW streamed his monumental performance of Bach's complete Sonatas and ... Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, Mozart, and Haydn ...