The program notes for Till Fellner's recital on Sunday afternoon compared the feat of performing all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas to climbing Mount Everest. Indeed, there are parallels. Both were ...
After the formal strides forward in his Op. 26 Sonata (see Recital 6) and the 'sonate quasi fantasie' pair of Op. 27 (see Recital 3), Beethoven appears to step back again with his next work in the ...
Andras Schiff explores Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in an exclusive series of lecture recitals at London's Wigmore Hall. Listen to him dissect Piano Sonata no 15, Opus 28 'Pastoral', in D Major.