But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, thoughts of expressing a kind of Romantic heroism in his music were in his mind as early as 1800. The Sonata's immediate inspiration was ...

It has in fact inspired more comment than perhaps any other piano sonata of its period. Lenin, for example, while recognising his shortcomings as a music critic, wrote: "I know nothing that is ...

88 keys, 88 shades of musical bliss: described as the ‘king of instruments’ by Franz Liszt, the piano enchants with its sonic prowess and possibilities. It occupies a special place in the classical ...

These seven piano sonatas define the essence of Ullmann’s achievement. The first four reconcile his competing aesthetic tendencies with varying success: the First (1936) has a finely sustained Andante ...

Pianist Althea Waites champions Black composers, especially the music of Florence Price, including performing the first ...

Guest artist Fanya Lin perfoms works by Philip Glass, Scriabin, George Crumb, Saint-Saüens, and featuring Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor ... by the John and Joyce Schaeuble Fund for ...

Talon Smith’s Sonata in ... He commands the piano with superb tone, remarkable timing, and poetic phrasing layered with amazing contrasts of stunning colors. According to classical pianist ...

After intermission, came a previously unannounced addition, Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22. Stepping away from the chasing and competing in the sonatas, her fresh voice added a calm ...

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1942 into a Russian Jewish family, Daniel Barenboim was a piano prodigy who first made his name in the 1960s as a performer of the classical keyboard repertory.