The 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven loom large in the history of music and even larger in the repertory of pianists. They are not simply the greatest sonatas for the instrument ever written by a single ...

He’s the Peter Sellers of pianists: untameable original if you get on his wavelength, merely wilful if you don’t Gianluca Cascioli is one of those pianists whose name is often accompanied by the ...

BEETHOVEN - THE YOUNG GENIUS: The passionate Sonata Pathétique, the high spirited Rage Over a Lost Penny, the deeply moving Largo e mesto from Sonata Opus 10 No. 3, and the exhilarating finale of ...

In 1800 Ludwig van Beethoven dumped and re-wrote the whole second movement of his String Quartet in G, Opus 18, No. 2. Most scholars thought the original draft was lost, but a music professor from the ...