When Daniel Barenboim begins his cycle of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas Wednesday night in Orchestra Hall, the event will have old-timers searching their memories for the last time they heard any ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...

In the final sonatas, Beethoven makes the piano explode. He uses extreme contrasts of register that might, or might not, give him a conventionally beautiful sound. He doesn’t care. I value highly ...

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly ...

Discover the best recordings of Beethoven's incredible piano sonatas on CD - click on the links to preview ... It should be augmented as follows: Daniel Barenboim was a young man when he recorded his ...

In a way this colossal repertoire has served a similar function in Daniel Barenboim’s long keyboard career. He has returned regularly to the Beethoven sonatas over the years in concert and on ...

This set is part of Barenboim's much larger "Beethoven for All" project — which includes recordings of all nine symphonies with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the complete piano sonatas.

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Yet Barenboim is often at his finest in music that feels like translated philosophy – perhaps that’s why his Beethoven and Wagner are so special – and when Schubert does allow that approach into the ...

The flamboyant pianist's concert series, starting tomorrow, will be London's most thrilling musical event for many years, says Damian Thompson.