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 ...

You can’t go wrong with either of these, but those new to the form will likely recognise the second movement of Op. 100 – probably the most famous passage of any piano trio written. Start here if you ...

Representing one’s home country abroad is serious business, and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes took it seriously in his Carnegie ...

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 ...