Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol 1 album review – fresh-as-a-daisy performances from a duo with a gift for storytelling

Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, on period instruments, offer zest-filled and elegant readings of four Beethoven sonatas ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...
The New York Times

Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...
NPR

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas

Andras Schiff has called Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 ("Hammerklavier") "a monument of impenetrability" with moments of humor and "unfathomable depths of tragedy and loss." Beethoven's 32 piano ...
The Guardian

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 101, 106, 109, 110 and 111 – review

It takes quite a lot of self-belief to begin your recording career for one of the world's leading classical labels in your mid-20s with Beethoven's last five sonatas, which is arguably the pinnacle of ...
SFGate

Review: Schiff starts his march through Beethoven piano sonatas

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas cover a dazzling amount of stylistic ground, from the intimate and crystalline to the grandiose. And that diversity is present from the very beginning, as Sunday night's ...
Classic FM

Jonathan Biss: Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Vol. 1

The Music: Rather than ploughing through the 32 Beethoven sonatas in chronological order, Jonathan Biss has picked four sonatas to launch his set that includes three distinctly un-obvious works.
Classic FM

Listen to Beethoven epic ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, played on the composer's own piano

This Broadwood piano is identical to the instrument the composer owned. And it was that piano that inspired the composer to write his most famous piece for solo piano, the ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata. In ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 13-18

Sonata for Piano No. 13, 'quasi una fantasia' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Stewart Goodyear, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' Stewart Goodyear, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata ...
BBC

Artur Pizarro - The Beethoven Sonata Cycle

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata ...
BBC

Artur Pizarro - The Beethoven Sonata Cycle

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata ...