George Harliono is a terrifyingly talented young pianist. Here he is aged 11, impressing a crowd of fans with a Beethoven sonata. In the summer of 2012, The City of London Festival – which sadly ...

Happy Birthday, but inspired by one of the greatest classical piano sonatas. And it works suprisingly well. With its huge minor chords, dramatic contrasts and virtuosic runs, Beethoven's 'Pathetique' ...

Much of this success was due to a disregard of composition conventions and rules, pushing the performers and their instruments to their limits. Today there are many artists who have recorded and ...

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 ...