The piano has been the star of the screen since before movies had sound. From Big to Amadeus, we look at some of the most ...

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, written between 1804 and 1805 ... found in it similarities to jazz and ragtime. Alfred Brendel, speaking of the second movement as a whole, said: ‘perhaps ...

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 ... whose master classes were attended by Alfred Brendel and Daniel Barenboim. One of the orchestral Beethoven interpreters he ...

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 ...

Beethoven’s piano works are some of the most widely admired, from his ‘Moonlight’ Sonata to ‘Für Elise ... Those are the words of the brilliant Mr Brendel himself. He can turn his hand to music from ...

It was at a masterclass with Brendel at the Guildhall School of Music, Lewis played him a Haydn sonata, fully expecting to be told ... The two shared a similar affinity for the piano music of ...

Alfred Brendel has called it ‘the most original, powerful and intelligent sonata composed after Beethoven and Schubert’. With its innovative single-movement structure, it is a monumental masterpiece ...

In his prime, he was compared with 20th-century luminaries such as Maurizio Pollini and Alfred Brendel ... to record the complete sonatas and piano concertos of Beethoven. In 1997, a collection ...

My idea is to sidestep the rightly vaunted Beethoven celebrities (Claudio Arrau, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Alfred Brendel, Wilhelm Furtwängler ... actually died on stage while playing ...

However, Brendel does not subscribe to the view that a ... ‘That said, there are, of course, special cases, such as Beethoven's Op 110 Sonata – we know that he was suffering from jaundice at this time ...