Barenboim clearly regards the final trilogy of sonatas–Nos. 30, 31 and 32–as a musical entity that defines the essence of late Beethoven. Explosive energy and transcendent calm are the forces ...

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 ...

But Beethoven, as Barenboim and Schiff both emphasize time and again, is about conquering the impossible. There is no stopping these sonatas, and as opportunities to hear and read about this music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although Barenboim has twice recorded the entire cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas (the first time when he was 27), the public's interest in Lotto's newest edition is still growing: Apart from ...

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Yes, I know, we've dealt with the Barenboim ... of Schubert's late sonatas. Comparisons with Steinway or Fazioli would be invidious: after all, there's little that such a pianist cannot do with those, ...