Having made the first drafts of "Piano Sonata No. 2" in the spring of 1910, Szymanowski completed it the following summer in Tymoszówka. Having made the first drafts of Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 21 in ...

Thanks primarily to a handful of pieces that celebrated pastoral America, Charles Ives is seen by many as some sort of cranky, avant-garde romantic. A recent piece by The New Yorker‘s Alex Ross made ...

Ives: Piano Sonata, No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860;" Webern: Piano Variations, Op. 27; Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1. Alexei Lubimov, piano. Zig-Zag Territories 362. More than one new music junkie has ...

Jan Popis’s hagiographic sleeve notes make strong claims for Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-69), ranking her string quartets with those of Bartók, and her Second Piano Sonata (1953) with the ...

WORCESTER – The 100th anniversary of Charles Ives’ Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60, will be celebrated during a free live streamed event and performance from Mechanics Hall starting at ...

The music of Nikolay Medtner (1880-1951) takes on a particularly impressive dimension when championed by a pianist of the calibre of Steven Osborne. Nourished by the same Russian roots as Rachmaninov, ...

Beethoven's first three piano sonatas were dedicated to the figure who had inspired him to move from his home town of Bonn to Vienna, Joseph Haydn. No. 2 is notable for the way we see Beethoven ...

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.