This week, the world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt chooses five contrasting aspects of the piano sonatas to discuss with Donald Macleod. In 2020, Hewitt reaches the end of her survey of Beethoven’s ...
This week, the world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt chooses five contrasting aspects of the piano sonatas to discuss with Donald Macleod. In 2020, Hewitt reaches the end of her survey of Beethoven’s ...
Beethoven’s musical domination of the first three decades of the 19th century was virtually absolute. Imagine, then, what it must have been like for his pupils, taking advice from arguably the ...
SANTA BARBARA — When the American composer Elliott Carter reached the seemingly ripe old age of 80, I interviewed him about his late style. He wasn’t much interested in either looking back or keeping ...
Israeli-American pianist Yael Weiss has commissioned 32 composers from countries plagued by conflict to create solo piano works responding to material from each of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as part ...
The French composer – a postwar pupil of Messaien’s – wrote only a handful of works. Collot’s new recording shows his Piano Sonata to be one of the great achievements of serialism When Jean Barraqué ...