This Broadwood piano is identical to the instrument the composer owned. And it was that piano that inspired the composer to write his most famous piece for solo piano, the ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata. In ...

We thrill to the shrill. Or at least, so I’ve heard. Like much of contemporary life, contemporary music has been increasingly engineered for the outer reaches of pitch and volume. That’s what best ...

In its sheer scale, density of thought and technical requirements, the Hammerklavier presents a more severe test of a pianist's capabilities than any other of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. The trio of ...

Beatrice Rana joins Harriet Smith to talk about finding a path through Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata While lockdown for us lesser mortals meant perhaps finding new ways of cataloguing our CD ...

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The luminous beauty of Perahia at his best was missing in a performance that struggled on its way to the biggest piano sonata of all Next season at the Barbican, Murray Perahia will devote himself to ...

Dass Beethoven nicht nur ein Klavier zertrümmerte und Tasten oder Hämmer in die Luft fliegen ließ, weil die Instrumente seiner Zeit noch nicht den Entwicklungsstand hatten, den der virtuose Pianist ...

Fünfundfünfzig Kilo abgenommen – in vier Jahren! Das ist rekordverdächtig und dürfte diesen Musiker fürs Guinness-Buch der Rekorde qualifizieren. Der Abschmelzungsprozess des Kristian Bezuidenhout ...

Vater und Sohn-Konzert im Beethovenhaus Baden: Wolfgang und Michael Capek mit 4 Händen am Hammerklavier. BADEN. Die Liebe und Begabung für Musik liegt definitiv in der Familie! Vater Wolfgang Capek, ...