Beethoven’s Op 53 represented a revolution in his piano style, says Patrick Rucker, as he sifts through almost a century of recordings The Sonata in C major, Op 53, was published in Vienna in May 1805 ...

Rudolf Serkin, piano (Sony Classical, 3-CD set). Serkin was exceptionally finicky when it came to passing approval on his studio recordings, which explains why all nine of these Beethoven sonata ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "There is a time in the piano music world: before the 'Waldstein' Sonata and after the 'Waldstein' ...

Beethoven dedicated his Piano Sonata No. 21 to his friend and patron Count Ferdinand von Waldstein. It’s considered one of his most technically challenging piano sonatas. Hear American pianist Garrick ...

This week, from New Albany, Ohio, an 18-year-old pianist plays the opening movement of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata, a teenage violinist from Boston plays Wieniawski, and an 18-year-old soprano who ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The first volume of Bavouzet’s projected traversal of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas was an unqualified triumph, the ...

Beethoven thought that his Waldstein and Appassionata sonatas for solo piano were some of the best he ever wrote. History agrees with him: These famous masterpieces have been studied and worshiped by ...

Concerts that stand out from the rest are often memorable for the unity between performer, programme and audience. The Hong Kong piano recital by Igor Levit was one such concert. The Russian-born ...