Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

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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 ...

Which Claudio Arrau do you like best: The young virtuoso? The elder statesman of the recording studio, whose grave, sometimes ponderous persona obliterated his younger self? Or the mature master who ...

WE are fortunate in Scotland to be richly experienced in the Beethoven playing of Welsh pianist Llyr Williams. He has already performed two complete cycles of the 32 Piano Sonatas, one in Perth and ...

Reporting from San Francisco — We cannot escape Beethoven. The big music book of the fall was American musicologist Jan Swafford’s epic, 1,077-page “Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph,” published less ...

New York Times' chief classical critic, Anthony Tommasini, took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. At the center of my program was Beethoven's Sonata No. 31 in A ...