David Dubal on the “Hammerklavier.” ...

No two of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are alike. Even more than in his string quartets, which similarly span his creative life, he seemed to make new strides in form and motivic development in each ...

Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' Alessio Bax, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 29, 'Hammerklavier' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano (Die) Ruinen von Athen ...

Andras Schiff has called Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 ("Hammerklavier") "a monument of impenetrability" with moments of humor and "unfathomable depths of tragedy and loss." Beethoven's 32 piano ...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas cover a dazzling amount of stylistic ground, from the intimate and crystalline to the grandiose. And that diversity is present from the very beginning, as Sunday night's ...

In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final destination here with Vol 9. My reviews of previous volumes characterised the ...

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 ...

Craig Sotres, courtesy of AT&T Performing Arts Center - Craig Sotres, courtesy of AT&T P If there’s a single core to the piano repertory, it’s the 32 sonatas that Beethoven composed between 1793 and ...

Following its acclaimed debut in 2024, the prestigious Edinburgh International Royal Mile Piano Series returns with a complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas, performed across the 2025–26 ...