Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Beethoven's Broadwood piano is legendary... Having played on Viennese instruments for most of his life, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few years ago Igor Levit released a set of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas that drew great acclaim. It set off ...
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 ...
Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...
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