Piano Sonata No. 14, more commonly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is one of Beethoven’s most famous works. In this sonic journey, Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the sonata in a wider musical landscape ...

The popular nickname of the 'Moonlight' for the second sonata of Op. 27 may be a fair title for the first movement, but the rest of the work contains some of the most turbulent music Beethoven ...

Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev played Beethoven and Grieg in contrasting styles, showing his mastery of restraint and the dramatic.

Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was ...

Basically Beethoven also stages free monthly Hallam Concerts from October through May (excluding December) at Central Commons, a community venue in a revitalized church building near Love Field.

LONDON (AP) — Alfred Brendel, a pianist and poet renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven over a six-decade career, died Tuesday at his home in London. He was 94.

‘Alfred Brendel's playing of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor) is remarkable for the freshness of his approach to familiar music. It is as if he has forgotten all the many ...

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo with Sir Stephen Hough.

Hello, Mrs. Beethoven I have been practicing the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23, or “Appassionata.” Several months ago I could play the third movement of ...

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata Pianist Warren Mailley-Smith has developed a large following across the UK, with audiences warming to his outstanding pianism, effortless technique and charismatic charm.

An upward sweep and a glissando down the keyboard completed its bracing journey. Beethoven’s Piano Sonata no. 16 in G major is not as celebrated as its nicknamed partners from the same Op.31 set, the ...