He turned to the piano and began playing Beethoven's Für Elise, gradually infusing it with blue notes and gospel chords. The result was a joyful, soulful, century-spanning alchemy that caused ...

Seasoned collectors will readily warm to the beautifully recorded piano even if the brass section is placed rather ... The perfect civility of Perahia’s playing is a joy, the deeply felt slow ...

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 ... lacks the kind of consistent insight and acumen the music demands, though the playing is ...

St. Bartholomew Catholic Church will celebrate the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s 255th anniversary in the latest ...

“I had been thinking of filling in the gaps in Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas—there were a few that I had never played—and that inspired me to begin the process of playing through all of them and ...