A German immigrant made a livelihood out of his love for pianos. A blaze wiped out the historic instruments he housed and his ...

Adrian Spence does not pussyfoot around when talking about the relevance of Beethoven. The founder and artistic director of ...

Stormy, emotionally charged harmonic shifts. Flowing classical lyricism interrupted by lightning bolt chords. Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios.

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 ...

After her rapturously received Chopin recordings for EMI, Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter turns to Beethoven. And, in her grave, minor-key programme of three sonatas, she plays with an unfettered ...

Cascavelle has reissued Aldo Ciccolini’s 1995‑99 Beethoven cycle for the Italian Bongiovanni label (it also appeared on Nuova Era) as a space-saving box-set. While most cyclical presentations follow a ...