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 ...

Sony Classical is delighted to release an advance preview track from the eagerly anticipated debut album by the extraordinarily gifted young Japanese pianist, Mao Fujita. Having signed an exclusive ...

Having been troubled again in recent years by the hand problem that originated in the 1990s when a bone abnormality on his thumb required a series of career-threatening operations, Murray Perahia has ...

Where does the word ‘sonata’ come from, and what does it mean? We take a deep dive to explore its meaning and evolution. However, some Baroque sonatas in were written for solo instruments without it, ...

When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.

What a difference a day makes at Benaroya Hall! On Sunday afternoon, there was Lang Lang, all spectacular flash and dash at the piano, playing two concerti with the Seattle Symphony to a packed house ...

From Kloetzel and Koenig to Weilerstein and Barnatan, a flurry of new Beethoven double acts each offer something new. And Palaver Strings revel in the work of women through the ages Beethoven’s music ...

Lucas Debargue took fourth prize at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, but seems to have created more of a stir subsequently than any of those placed above him. The French 27-year-old was mostly ...

The greatly respected pianist András Schiff arrives (under the sponsorship of Performance Santa Fe) with a program of sonatas by the four most solid pillars of Viennese music in the decades ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...