Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown whose professional career began during the 1930s, continues his 2009-10 survey of the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in concert at 7:30 ...

Happy Birthday, but inspired by one of the greatest classical piano sonatas. And it works suprisingly well. With its huge minor chords, dramatic contrasts and virtuosic runs, Beethoven's 'Pathetique' ...

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 ...

George Harliono is a terrifyingly talented young pianist. Here he is aged 11, impressing a crowd of fans with a Beethoven sonata. In the summer of 2012, The City of London Festival – which sadly ...

Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 / Piano Sonata Moonlight; Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Flutes; Beethoven – Sonata No. 8, Pathétique 2nd Movement; Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake; Prokofiev – ...

Much of this success was due to a disregard of composition conventions and rules, pushing the performers and their instruments to their limits. Today there are many artists who have recorded and ...

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The music world likes its “years,” and 2020 will be a “Beethoven year.” But isn’t every year a Beethoven year? Sure, but next year will mark the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of his birth—so it ...

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