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 ...

KOMONO, Mie Prefecture--Pianos from the time of Beethoven and Mozart form part of a collection here that was lovingly put together by a piano tuner who is now retired. Despite being more than 200 ...

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 ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...