3 and 4 83 min Watch the programme The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France invites the great Martha Argerich to perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 with them. A concert conducted by Ion ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them. The sonatas make up a wonderfully diverse yet utterly cogent and self-contained body of work.

Seasoned collectors will readily warm to the beautifully recorded piano even if the brass section is placed rather distantly in the empty concert hall ambience. That said, a wealth of often obscured ...

Beethoven’s music is full of burning questions ... We know that he relished beating his rivals in after-dinner piano duels sponsored by his aristocratic patrons. No-one could match his volcanic ...

This installment of the Classic Archive series captures renowned American pianist Murray Perahia at one with his art form, interpreting the works of Ludwig van Beethoven with unrivaled virtuosity ...

From Verona to the concert hall of the Calcutta School of Music, pianist Daniele Buccio brought with him a unique proposition: Beethoven’s nine symphonies, not performed by an orchestra, but on solo ...