Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven's piano music is some of the most popular, and constantly played by performers everywhere. But if you're a first-time listener, where do you start? Like much of Beethoven's work, ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

Andsnes and the MCO’s fresh and sensitive performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos have been an early Proms highlight. But is there such a thing as ‘authentic’ Beethoven? In the glittering wake of ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

From Kloetzel and Koenig to Weilerstein and Barnatan, a flurry of new Beethoven double acts each offer something new. And Palaver Strings revel in the work of women through the ages Beethoven’s music ...

Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano, in the Nelson Music Room, featuring violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Ieva ...

Getting a head start on the impending Beethoven 2020 festivities, Canada's Jan Lisiecki has today surprised us with Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, his fifth ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is not an artist you "discover." Like Shakespeare, da Vinci and the Beatles, his legacy hangs in the air unavoidably. Since his death in 1827, Beethoven has become as much a pop ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Pierre-Laurent Aimard juxtaposes the master with other troublemaking composers “so that we understand better what Beethoven meant.” ...

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