Like so much of Beethoven’s late music, the last three piano sonatas are dense, complex and without parallel in the history of the keyboard. The challenges may be forbidding but the rewards are huge.

Paul Lewis ends his Beethoven sonata cycle for Harmonia Mundi with another wide-ranging collection; like its predecessors, it contains some outstanding performances and some that do not quite reach ...

Fazil Say and Gianandrea Noseda are hard-hitting radicals when it comes to Beethoven and their recording of the Third Piano Concerto is one of most startling performances on disc. Mozart's influence ...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas cover a dazzling amount of stylistic ground, from the intimate and crystalline to the grandiose. And that diversity is present from the very beginning, as Sunday night's ...

Which Claudio Arrau do you like best: The young virtuoso? The elder statesman of the recording studio, whose grave, sometimes ponderous persona obliterated his younger self? Or the mature master who ...

The Downtown Concert Series in the small county seat of Freehold will be hosting pianist Stephen Moller in a performance of the complete piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven, 32 works from the 18th- ...

They stand as a monolith in the piano repertoire, 32 sonatas that explore a vast range of the human experience. From the ardors of the “Pathetique” (Op. 13) to the storms of the “Appassionata” (Op. 57 ...

A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to enter the inner space of our thoughts and feelings.’ Hmm. In his latest ...