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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Other pianists known for performing and recording Beethoven’s complete sonatas include Claudio Arrau León, Wilhelm Kempff and Daniel Barenboim. Enjoy an excerpt of the Vienna Philharmonic and ...

Damian Thompson reviews Barenboim on Beethoven: Nine Symphonies That Changed the World, a BBC Two programme featuring conductor Daniel Barenboim. Maestro: conductor Daniel Barenboim was the star ...