It's what they play on rather than the violinist and pianist themselves that provides the special interest in these sonata performances, for Daniel Sepec and Andreas Staier both use instruments that ...

It opens like a Bach solo, unfolds like a symphony, and finally sweeps all before it with titanic power: Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata is one of the miracles of the repertory (as Tolstoy's homage ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist. His music is treated with a reverence that can sometimes hide the intellect and passion he intended to convey to the audiences of his era. The first ...

One could linger on the details of the performances – the quirky pedalling in the opening bars of the ‘Pathétique’, the mannered close of its first movement, the superbly articulated finale of the ...