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

Thomas Carroll and Llyr Willams's performances of both Beethoven's A major Cello Sonata and the Brahms work in F major make you wish the Welsh duo would record the remainder of both composer's ...

Pianist Iain Burnside with a recommendation of the ultimate recording of the third, and arguably greatest, of Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has a tough job living up to expectations. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called him the "world's greatest living cellist." Annan has appointed Ma to the post of "UN peace ...

Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

From the early Op. 2 set of sonatas to the famous 'Moonlight', find out why Beethoven's piano sonatas broke the mould - and hear from pianists themselves about how they approach performing them.

Pianist Iain Burnside with a recommendation of the ultimate recording of the third, and arguably greatest, of Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano.