Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

These seven piano sonatas define ... unfolding of its outer movements, while the Second (1939) frames piquant variations on a theme collected by Janáček with movements whose energy lacks deeper ...

In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final ... Brawn brings strong contrapuntal awareness to the A major Sonata’s opening ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...