The pianist binds Schubert’s D850 with Schumann’s Kinderszenen with playing of warmth and crystalline technique ...
Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity ...
In this vast, single-movement composition, Franz Liszt achieved a synthesis of symphonic and sonata forms that has never been surpassed for its cogency, scope and imagination. He managed this in a ...
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 ...
When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.
Having made the first drafts of "Piano Sonata No. 2" in the spring of 1910, Szymanowski completed it the following summer in Tymoszówka. Having made the first drafts of Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 21 in ...
The Singapore teen will perform four Beethoven piano sonatas at Esplanade Concert Hall on May 23. Read more at ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music that Schubert composed in the last months of his life has acquired a quasi-mythical status. A picture ...