Pro Musica's season-finale concert on Sunday, May 3 features orchestral arrangements of works by Beethoven and Janáček ...

Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity ...

Before Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) changed the direction of music forever, he was a pianist...and a pretty good one to boot. Beethoven could play fiddle too, but, then again, he was no Paganini ...

Note to Readers: This column is switching gears to review the complete Andras Schiff and Idil Biret Beethoven Sonata cycles. One sonata will be addressed at a time. This will be more orderly than ...

A wonderful box set of all 32 of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, performed by the veteran Italian virtuoso, Maurizio Pollini, has been issued on Deutsche Grammophon/ Universal Classics. His ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Beethoven started composing his Septet for strings and winds in E-flat in 1799. It's in the style of a ...

As a student, Levit spent years meticulously polishing a single piano sonata. In many ways it taught him all he knows about this ‘no bullshit’ composer who wrote music of the future Opus 2, No 2. The ...

Mark Phillips is the CBS News senior foreign correspondent and has been based in the London Bureau since 1993. He has covered every major international story of the past 35 years, including conflicts ...

Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata is the most popular piece of music to fall asleep to, according to a global sleep study. A fifth (20 percent) of UK respondents said the enduring 1801 piano work, known ...

Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...