Louis Lortie is back, this time in concert with music by Beethoven, as part of our continuing series of the 32 piano sonatas. We hear him play the famous "Pathetique," also known as Beethoven's Piano ...

Sonata No.13, Op. 27 No. 1 : Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia - 2nd Movement Sonata No.13, Op. 27 No. 1 : Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia - 3rd Movement Sonata No.13, Op. 27 No. 1 : Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia - 4th ...

The two most pressing concerns for Beethoven in 1801 were his encroaching deafness and his preoccupation with 'a dear fascinating girl who', he wrote, 'loves me and whom I love'. This was the Countess ...

This Sonata represents one of the few cases in which the popular title came from the composer himself - its full name is 'Grande sonate pathétique' (pathetic in the sense of 'suffering', rather than ...

Absolutely; the focus and stamina were such that a sinking would have been impossible. Any difficulties rest with us, and I confess I have a problem with the biggest movements. Like much in late ...

Beethoven’s most popular sonata, the ‘Moonlight’, has been performed and recorded by hundreds of pianists over the past century. Jed Distler compares a judicious selection of recordings The ...

Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...

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 ...

Kobe Bryant had learned to play Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" by ear years earlier Kobe Bryant’s love of classical music was honored during the powerful celebration of life for the NBA legend on ...

Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard advances our day-by-day series of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas with a concert performance of the Piano Sonata No. 13.