The Music: Rather than ploughing through the 32 Beethoven sonatas in chronological order, Jonathan Biss has picked four sonatas to launch his set that includes three distinctly un-obvious works.

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 ...

The three op 31 sonatas, all written in 1802, sound lean and coherent on an 1810 piano, if occasionally things feel a little too well-mannered Ein Neuer Weg (A New Way) is the title of Andreas ...

Gilles Vonsattel first performed with Camerata Pacifica in 2017 and is now their principal pianist. He has played many Beethoven piano sonatas, but has been “genuinely” surprised by some that are ...

Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...

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 ...

Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer François-Frédéric Guy, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 9 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer François-Frédéric Guy, Piano Sonata for Piano No.

Sonata for Piano No. 21, 'Waldstein' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Kun Woo Paik, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 20 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Kun Woo Paik, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 16 Kun Woo Paik, ...