Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lucas Debargue recorded 52 of these single-movement works on a four-disc, four-hour survey. By Zachary Woolfe Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve ...

Hungarian pianist Jeno Jando may rightly be proclaimed the utility infielder of classical piano. He has on his resume all of Mozart's piano sonatas and piano concertos, every Beethoven sonata, every ...

This Sonata represents one of the few cases in which the popular title came from the composer himself - its full name is 'Grande sonate pathétique' (pathetic in the sense of 'suffering', rather than ...

TRIO SONATAS fell out of fashion long ago: composers haven’t written them for over 150 years. But lockdown is the ideal time to rediscover them, as we argue in a piece in this week’s issue of The ...

In his last sonata, Beethoven seems to have found the ultimate solution to the unity of form by resolving in one movement the conflicts of the other. The two movements contrast on a number of planes: ...