Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight": 1. Adagio sostenuto Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight": 2. Allegretto Piano ...

In Howard’s hands, the Allegro con brio section in Act 1’s opening number conveys more of the music’s opera buffa character than in Katsaris’s scaled-down reading. While Katsaris clips the F major ...

If ever a recital programme was worth enshrining in CD format, it is this one. All my life I have obssessed about Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, one of the greatest, most dazzling and revolutionary ...

Perhaps the biggest challenge of the Hammerklavier is the sheer multiplicity of its challenges: stamina and agility, both physical and intellectual, extremes of extroversion and introversion, and, not ...

This week, it's a program of variations for the piano with works by Beethoven, Mozart, and more. This week, it's a program of variations – from Beethoven's Eroica Variations with pianist Inna Faliks, ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. They’re called the “Eroica Variations,” because Beethoven uses the same melody heard in the finale ...

Beethoven's Eroica Variations technically should be called the Prometheus Variations, because he took the tune from his ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus. Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa plays ...

Why Konstantin Scherbakov? Why Beethoven? Why ask Why? In the Book of Exodus, when Moses asked God what to call Him, God said, "I AM WHO I AM." Same thing with Scherbakov and Beethoven. Scherbakov is ...

Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony and Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony might seem an odd couple for a program. The “Italian” Symphony, which Mendelssohn completed in 1833, when he was just 24, is a ...