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 ...

Composer and pianist Joseph Seif has released two classical piano sonatas and additional works. The two EPs, Piano Sonata No. 1 and Piano Sonata No. 2, are now streaming on Spotify, Tidal, Amazon ...

From the early Op. 2 set of sonatas to the famous 'Moonlight', find out why Beethoven's piano sonatas broke the mould - and hear from pianists themselves about how they approach performing them.

SANTA BARBARA — When the American composer Elliott Carter reached the seemingly ripe old age of 80, I interviewed him about his late style. He wasn’t much interested in either looking back or keeping ...

The Central Basin Community Concert Association will present "Classical Sounds of the Season" on Dec. 4. The concert replaced the one originally planned by pianist and Moses Lake native Collin Hansen, ...

What a difference a day makes at Benaroya Hall! On Sunday afternoon, there was Lang Lang, all spectacular flash and dash at the piano, playing two concerti with the Seattle Symphony to a packed house ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

All this, too, from memory, like another septuagenarian pianist, Idil Biret, when I last saw her. Leonskaja's first act after entering was to remove the music rack - a practical gesture, nothing ...

“It’s like when you have a vision of a huge mountain from far away,” says Nelson Freire about returning to Brahms’s F Minor Piano Sonata after a gap of 50 years. “By getting close you begin to notice ...

If the greatness of music is in its triple play of emotions, ideas, and sonic pleasure, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda, who died last week, at the age of ninety-one, holds a justified place in ...