TEN years ago, pianist Peter Serkin made a Beethoven recording that included the “Moonlight” Sonata and the “Appassionata.” Moonlight was evidently on, or in, his mind, since even the agitated and ...

Jane Jones has a glimpse into the heart of the contradictory composer. When I skipped practice and decided that I wasn’t made for music, I reckoned without Beethoven. It’s years since my schooldays ...

"I would never have believed that I could be so lazy as I am here. If it is followed by an outburst of industry, something worthwhile may be accomplished." So wrote Beethoven from the Austrian spa ...

You have to hand it to the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth for trying something different once in a while. Saturday afternoon’s concert, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, featured the ...

Ruth Laredo plays the ground-breaking "Appassionata" Sonata, No. 23 in F-Minor, Op. 57, by Beethoven. She's in concert at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland.

The first years of the 19th century found Beethoven at a crucial point of transition in his career. Having mastered the Viennese high Classical style for which Haydn and Mozart served as paradigms, he ...

From the very first bars of Beethoven’s F Major Piano Sonata Op 54, it was obvious that this was an evening when Jean-Efflam Bavouzet was in no mood to compromise. The relatively unassuming ...