It opens like a Bach solo, unfolds like a symphony, and finally sweeps all before it with titanic power: Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata is one of the miracles of the repertory (as Tolstoy's homage ...

During the school year of 2014-2015, world-renowned artists Miriam Fried, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano (01) returned to Curtis for a residency which entailed working with students in a violin and ...

Two approaches to Beethoven's sonatas which could not be more strongly contrasted: Kurosaki is well known as a period-instrument orchestral leader, while Dusinberre is the leader of the Takács Quartet ...

Beethoven isn’t just the peak of classical music. He’s a whole mountain range, with numerous crags, crests and escarpments for ambitious musicians to scale. That’s what violinist Maria Larionoff and ...

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Isabelle Faust, Violin Alexander Melnikov, Piano Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Isabelle Faust, ...

Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 28 Rémy Cardinale, Piano Hélène Schmitt, Violin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 32 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Hélène ...

Beethoven’s violin sonatas have always been in the shadow of his much better-known piano sonatas and trios and quartets. They’re slight works on the whole, graceful and sprightly rather than grand, ...

Violin Sonata No.4 In A Minor, Op. 23: I: Presto Violin Sonata No.4 In A Minor, Op. 23: Ii: Andante Scherzoso Piu Allegretto Violin Sonata No.4 In A Minor, Op. 23: Iii: Allegro Molto Violin Sonata No.

With Viktoria Mullova’s visionary CD performance of the Kreutzer Sonata still ringing in the ears, not to mention Renaud Capuçon’s complete set, do we need another recording of Beethoven’s sonatas for ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist. His music is treated with a reverence that can sometimes hide the intellect and passion he intended to convey to the audiences of his era. The first ...

Anne-Sophie Mutter is the modern classical record company's dream artist; not only is the 39-year-old German violinist a musician of near peerless virtuosity and unimpeachable integrity, but she is… ...