The B-flat Sonata, which is further known as D.960, the standardized numbering system for the Schubert’s works, has been called sublimely beautiful by just about everyone who comments on it ...

The first half of this program consisted of two sets of shorter pieces known as "character-pieces," by Dvorak and Janacek, ...

But if “masterpiece” can be meaningless, Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, composed between 1795 and 1822, are deservedly touchstones. Hans von Bülow, ...

Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Chandos CHAN. Paul Lewis . The Waldstein Sonata, which he wrote in 1804, was a breakthrough piece for Beethoven. It’s longer than his earlier sonatas but, more ...

Over his short life, he composed 18 numbered piano sonatas, sonatas for four hands, 36 violin sonatas, and 17 Church Sonatas, as well as trio sonatas for chamber instruments. He composed his first ...

No piano sonata takes you into its realm quite so readily. The left hand at first mirrors the right but quickly inserts a rising idea. A repeated staccato tattoo emerges, ...

But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, thoughts of expressing a kind of Romantic heroism in his music were in his mind as early as 1800. The Sonata's immediate inspiration was ...

"I would never have believed that I could be so lazy as I am here. If it is followed by an outburst of industry, something worthwhile may be accomplished." ...

The Czech-born, Austrian pianist had wide interests and an international outlook, and was best known for his dedication to ...

Schubert was 31 when he wrote these piano sonatas, in September 1828; two months later, he was dead. He was living in his brother’s house in suburban Vienna, in a dank, poorly heated room barely ...

Celebrated in his earlier years as one of Russia’s greatest composers, his oeuvre including 27 symphonies, 13 string quartets and nine piano sonatas, he was increasingly sidelined by ...