Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

Jed Distler reads a majestic book on Beethoven’s chamber music: ‘Donat unwraps the complex layers of Beethoven’s ...

Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano, in the Nelson Music Room, featuring violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Ieva ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

If the idea of two discs of cello and piano music – even Beethoven’s – sounds a touch intimidating, any such concerns drop away in the presence of playing of this standard. Perényi offers tawny, gloss ...

Turkish pianist Idil Biret (b. 1941) has been a household name at a number of record labels, most notably EMI and Naxos. A student of Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot, Biret is steeped in the ...

Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Pierre-Laurent Aimard juxtaposes the master with other troublemaking composers “so that we understand better what Beethoven meant.” ...

The Santa Barbara Symphony performed a weekend-long marathon of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos at the Granada Theatre from Jan. 17-18.

Ludwig van Beethoven is not an artist you "discover." Like Shakespeare, da Vinci and the Beatles, his legacy hangs in the air unavoidably. Since his death in 1827, Beethoven has become as much a pop ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .