It has in fact inspired more comment than perhaps any other piano sonata of its period. Lenin, for example, while recognising his shortcomings as a music critic, wrote: "I know nothing that is ...

Tippett's New Year, Boulez's Second Piano Sonata, Chopin's Preludes, Bach's The Art of Fugue and Mahler's Symphony No 5 ...

Many works include sonata in their title, perhaps one of the most famous being Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 – better known as his ‘Moonlight Sonata.’ It remains one of the composer’s most beloved ...

Guest artist Fanya Lin perfoms works by Scriabin, George Crumb, Saint-Saëns, and featuring Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor. A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Fanya is a top prizewinner of the ...

Violinist Hyeri Choi and Pianist Mark Neiwirth will be presented in an Idaho State University faculty concert on May 14 at ...

But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them. The sonatas make up a wonderfully diverse yet utterly cogent and self-contained body of work.

Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet, performed by the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.