
It’s not surprising that Cyprien Katsaris comes up with the most ingenious piano programming notion for the Beethoven anniversary year. He presents a six-CD chronological
Here’s a very promising start to what I assume will be a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle, featuring performances not otherwise included in Naxos’ “complete”
It seems that more and more pianists are angling to conduct Beethoven’s concertos from the keyboard, including Jan Lisiecki, who was 24 when Deutsche Grammophon
Between 1999 and 2007 the Vianna da Motta International Music Foundation brought out 10 CDs containing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas with Sequeira Costa. The
Born in Spain, pianist Eduardo del Pueyo (1905-1986) based his
Before the year is out, 2020 will see Beethoven-themed everything, so it’s perhaps not so surprising to find non-classical acts having some fun at the
At 85, Philippe Entremont’s technique remains in good order, while his musical insights have evolved in Beethoven. He actually recorded three of these four sonatas
Writing about the “OYAPS” (“outstanding American pianists”) who came to
The first “official” release of three South German Radio broadcasts
There are two ways to look at a Total-Beethoven box