Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

The titles of these sonatas summon up a stormy, blood-and-thunder vision of Beethoven. That isn’t Ingrid Fliter’s way. Her approach is grandly spacious, and full of the subtle pedal effects you ...

Discover the best recordings of Beethoven's incredible piano sonatas on CD - click on the links to preview and buy them. “Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is ...

Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2: I. Allegro Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2: II. Adagio Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2: III. Allegretto Piano Sonata ...

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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 ...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas cover a dazzling amount of stylistic ground, from the intimate and crystalline to the grandiose. And that diversity is present from the very beginning, as Sunday night's ...

Beethoven wrote piano sonatas throughout his life, from the early pieces he wrote as virtuoso vehicles for himself to the highly distilled essays he crafted after deafness had put an end to his ...

'There’s no denying his clarity: fingerwork is immaculate (passagework, trills and tremolos are unfailingly neat) and textures are lucid' Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No 30 in E, Op 109; No 31 in A flat, ...

Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: I. Allegro vivace Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31 No. 1: II. Adagio grazioso Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op ...