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A previously unheard Beethoven piano sonata is to be performed on Sunday in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. A new completion of a Beethoven piano sonata will receive its world premiere this weekend in ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...

Mark Phillips is the CBS News senior foreign correspondent and has been based in the London Bureau since 1993. He has covered every major international story of the past 35 years, including conflicts ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist. His music is treated with a reverence that can sometimes hide the intellect and passion he intended to convey to the audiences of his era. The first ...

Emil Gilels died suddenly in 1985. Together with Sviatoslav Richter he was one of the unquestionably great Russian pianists of the postwar Soviet era, and part of an outstanding generation of players ...

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata ...