Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...

There are no major surprises in this live recording, just the simple but sublime sense that the music is being passed from composer, through pianist, on to us ...

A very special delivery arrived at the Saranac United Methodist Church on Wednesday. The Mason & Hamlin Model CC Concert Grand Piano, Virtuoso X Series 2026, traveled from Haverhill, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...

Beethoven’s 1817 fortepiano, built by Thomas Broadwood. Beethoven, though primarily thought of as a great composer, was also the greatest pianist of his age. Only Franz Liszt could approach ...

Fifty years after his classic recordings with Jacqueline du Pre, Barenboim joins with his violinist son and cellist Kian Soltani to bring nuance and thoughtfulness to these seven piano trios Daniel ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

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Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Nannette Streicher has been marginalized by history, but she was one of Europe’s finest keyboard manufacturers. By Patricia Morrisroe ...