A selective list of the year’s best: Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Angel). Artur Schnabel’s death in 1951 did not slow the growth of his reputation as a pianist. In his time ...

You can also read a general introduction to Beethoven's piano sonatas.

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist ... The first nine violin sonatas were written in five years but represented an incredible creative trajectory breaking new boundaries at every ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

Barenboim's performances of Beethoven's Sonatas became legendary and he was one of the first musicians in the modern era to revive the idea of performing Mozart’s piano concertos without ... While the ...