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 ...
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 ...
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Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...
While lockdown for us lesser mortals meant perhaps finding new ways of cataloguing our CD collections or redecorating the bathroom, it seems that the great musicians among us spent it on loftier ...
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.