But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them ... never less than beautiful and the recordings are always expert. As for Barenboim, here I ...

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly ...

Barenboim's performances of Beethoven's Sonatas became legendary and he was one of the first musicians in the modern era to revive the idea of performing Mozart’s piano concertos without a conductor, ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

Discover more about Beethoven in a season featuring Barenboim's entire symphony cycle. See the Highlights Collection for more great extracts from BBC Proms 2012. 1st mvt Beethoven 1st in C major ...

The maestro has appeared more frail since 2022, canceling scheduled performances that included a new production of Wagner's ...

In matters of musical diction, lucidity matters. Not long before the sonata’s end, Beethoven introduces a three-part fugato, a lyric inspiration of rare beauty, limpid in D. In the context of this ...