There are two sets of Diabelli Variations in András Schiff's collection of Beethoven's last three piano works, both in their very different ways period performances. On the first of the two discs, ...

Paul Lewis ends his Beethoven sonata cycle for Harmonia Mundi with another wide-ranging collection; like its predecessors, it contains some outstanding performances and some that do not quite reach ...

Like so much of Beethoven’s late music, the last three piano sonatas are dense, complex and without parallel in the history of the keyboard. The challenges may be forbidding but the rewards are huge.

Which Claudio Arrau do you like best: The young virtuoso? The elder statesman of the recording studio, whose grave, sometimes ponderous persona obliterated his younger self? Or the mature master who ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It's obvious that Lewis is virtuosic and versatile. "Yes, you should keep in touch with the [piano] repertoire as much as possible and ...

A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to enter the inner space of our thoughts and feelings.’ Hmm. In his latest ...