Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

One of those requests? The Imperial March from Star Wars done in the style of a Beethoven piano sonata and as you can hear for yourself in the video above, Vader’s theme takes on a far less ...

Beethoven’s lifework includes nine majestic symphonies, five piano concertos, numerous chamber music pieces, sonatas, and individual violin and piano pieces. His genius stands out among history’s ...

now that Gilels is gone he is king—in Beethoven, at least. There may be more individual and idiosyncratic interpreters of the music but there is none whose command, at best, is sovereign. Pollini's ...

The first thing we should do in approaching this musically remarkable and, in terms of its exploration of the composer’s tempest-tossed inner life, extraordinarily fascinating addition to the ...

He'd find himself transforming canonized classical works into blues or gospel songs, injecting them with the style ... solo piano work, a collection of similar compositions. Titled “Beethoven ...

This buzz continued into the program’s centerpiece, Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor ... that brought the deliberate, pointed style of Maurizio Pollini to mind.

Jakub Hrůša conducts a magnificent Shostakovich 11 and, just after the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a ...