Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol 1 album review – fresh-as-a-daisy performances from a duo with a gift for storytelling

Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, on period instruments, offer zest-filled and elegant readings of four Beethoven sonatas ...
The New York Times

Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them

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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

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 ...
NPR

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas

Andras Schiff has called Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 ("Hammerklavier") "a monument of impenetrability" with moments of humor and "unfathomable depths of tragedy and loss." Beethoven's 32 piano ...
Jazz

The Beethoven Piano Sonata Series: Idil Biret and Andras Schiff - Sonata No. 1 in F minor

Note to Readers: This column is switching gears to review the complete Andras Schiff and Idil Biret Beethoven Sonata cycles. One sonata will be addressed at a time. This will be more orderly than ...
The Financial Times

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 1

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This is one of the biggest discoveries I have come across in years. I say “discoveries” guardedly, because ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 22-32 (Bavouzet)

Sonata for Piano No. 21, 'Waldstein' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 22 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Sonata for Piano No.
The Guardian

Immense. Harrowing. Exhilarating: pianist Igor Levit on Beethoven's sonatas

As a student, Levit spent years meticulously polishing a single piano sonata. In many ways it taught him all he knows about this ‘no bullshit’ composer who wrote music of the future Opus 2, No 2. The ...
The New York Times

Tackling the Last of Beethoven’s Sonatas

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer The character of many of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas can be evoked by titles like “Tempest” and “Appassionata” or ...
BBC

Artur Pizarro - The Beethoven Sonata Cycle

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata ...
SFGate

András Schiff and Beethoven's 32 sonatas

Beethoven wrote piano sonatas throughout his life, from the early pieces he wrote as virtuoso vehicles for himself to the highly distilled essays he crafted after deafness had put an end to his ...
BBC

Artur Pizarro - The Beethoven Sonata Cycle

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata ...