Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was not ...

The three op 31 sonatas, all written in 1802, sound lean and coherent on an 1810 piano, if occasionally things feel a little too well-mannered Ein Neuer Weg (A New Way) is the title of Andreas ...

Beethoven reportedly said that the three piano sonatas he published as Op. 31 represented a "new path" for his compositional style. That remark may or may not tell us much - it comes down to us from ...

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Sonata for Piano No. 31 Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 32 Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer 6 Bagatelles Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer ...

At the end of the development section of the Allegro vivace of Op 31 No 1, Beethoven presents a wonderful transition by reiterating syncopated D naturals in the left hand. Andreas Haefliger creates a ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

Among connoisseurs of pianists of the last century, I have heard little disagreement that one of the finest, a supreme interpreter, intellectual giant and technician of staggering control, was Chilean ...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas cover a dazzling amount of stylistic ground, from the intimate and crystalline to the grandiose. And that diversity is present from the very beginning, as Sunday night's ...