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 ...

For my senior piano recital in college, encouraged by my teacher, I took on an ambitious program. I opened with an elaborate Haydn sonata and ended by pairing a Chopin nocturne with his teeming ...

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 ...

Our series of Beethoven piano sonatas continues with the pair of short sonatas that make up Beethoven's Op. 49. Kirill Gerstein plays the Piano Sonata, Op. 49, No. 1, and Louis Lortie has the ...

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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...