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

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 ...

New recordings of Schubert's Piano Sonata D959, Biber's violin sonatas, Rachmaninov's songs and Shostakovich's Preludes and ...

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 ...

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

After the formal strides forward in his Op. 26 Sonata (see Recital 6) and the 'sonate quasi fantasie' pair of Op. 27 (see Recital 3), Beethoven appears to step back again with his next work in the ...

Square format. On cream ground, five lines of black text, the title at top in bold capital letters, decorated with colorful ribbons. Printed in black: BEETHOVEN / FORTEPIANO AND / CELLO SONATAS / ...

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

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 ...

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 ...