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Reporting from San Francisco — We cannot escape Beethoven. The big music book of the fall was American musicologist Jan Swafford’s epic, 1,077-page “Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph,” published less ...

WE are fortunate in Scotland to be richly experienced in the Beethoven playing of Welsh pianist Llyr Williams. He has already performed two complete cycles of the 32 Piano Sonatas, one in Perth and ...

The Santa Barbara Music Club will present a stunning piano recital by Maestro Paul Berkowitz at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Of course, any recital by ...

Which Claudio Arrau do you like best: The young virtuoso? The elder statesman of the recording studio, whose grave, sometimes ponderous persona obliterated his younger self? Or the mature master who ...

Researchers analyzing patterns in Beethoven’s music believe the famous composer may have suffered from an irregular heartbeat, evidenced by what they say are musical arrhythmias found in some of his ...

Antonín Dvořák was a master of orchestral and chamber music. But think of his piano music, and what comes to mind? That old recital chestnut the Humoresque Op. 101, No. 7 and the ever-popular Slavonic ...

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FOR my senior piano recital in college, encouraged by my teacher, I took on an ambitious programme. I opened with an elaborate Haydn sonata and ended by pairing a Chopin nocturne with his teeming ...