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.

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 ...

Sonata for Piano No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Louis Lortie, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 2 Louis Lortie, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 3 Louis Lortie, Piano Ludwig ...

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 ...

Levit scales the heights over nine CDs, though excessive speed means musical sense is lost in some sonatas Igor Levit made his debut on disc in 2013 with Beethoven sonatas, and not just any group of ...

Sonata for Piano No. 28 Igor Levit, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 29, 'Hammerklavier' Igor Levit, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 30 Igor Levit, ...

Pianist Andras Schiff has immersed himself in Beethoven in a big way. He's performed all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, in chronological order, in 20 cities around the world over the past few years.

Though he is perhaps not as well known to British concert-goers as he might be, the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, now in his mid-60s, is highly regarded elsewhere in Europe, especially as an ...