This Sonata represents one of the few cases in which the popular title came from the composer himself - its full name is 'Grande sonate pathétique' (pathetic in the sense of 'suffering', rather than ...

One of Beethoven’s most famous piano sonatas features in Billy Joel’s 80s hit, ‘This Night’. It’s no revelation that Billy Joel is a pop genius on the piano – but it turns out he’s equally in-the-know ...

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 ...

Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown whose professional career began during the 1930s, continues his 2009-10 survey of the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in concert at 7:30 ...

Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' Steven Osborne, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 8, 'Pathétique' Steven Osborne, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No.

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 ...

There are any number of ways of navigating a route through Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas on disc, but after his series devoted to Haydn and Debussy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is opting for the most ...

Steven Osborne's first foray into Beethoven on disc is also his first recording of genuinely mainstream classical repertory. It confirms that the qualities he has brought to a wide range of later ...