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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 ...

Igor Levit, the winner of Gramophone's 2016 Recording of the Year for his astounding Sony Classical set of variations by Bach, Beethoven and Rzewski, has just released a set of the 32 Beethoven piano ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few years ago Igor Levit released a set of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas that drew great acclaim. It set off ...

OF all the many projects to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, this nine-disc boxset of all 32 of his Piano Sonatas will surely stand at the end of the year as one of ...

Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas are deemed to provide a profound insight into the music and life of the iconic German composer. Pianist Sohn Min-soo thinks he came to understand the great mind more than ...

Hungarian pianist Jeno Jando may rightly be proclaimed the utility infielder of classical piano. He has on his resume all of Mozart's piano sonatas and piano concertos, every Beethoven sonata, every ...

As a year of great peril for the performing arts draws to a close, with concert cancellations putting a major dampener on celebrations of the 250th anniversary of composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Schnabel's recordings were once the benchmark for playing Beethoven and this re-release of his early 1930s recordings provides an ...

Few musicians in the world are as intimately familiar with Beethoven's piano sonatas as Daniel Barenboim, who has been e | ...

Well, not quite complete – there’s no Op.64, Beethoven’s arrangement of his early Piano Trio. But all five sonatas and three sets of variations are here. Alfred is the dominant force throughout, a ...