At his recital Sunday afternoon at Symphony Center, the pianist presented nothing less than the final three Beethoven piano sonatas ... pianist proved himself a master of transition, shaping ...

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly ...

to help spearhead the production of a grandiose PBS documentary based on Barenboim's master classes of Beethoven's piano sonatas. "The Barenboim Project," which will be directed next year by ...

In the final sonatas, Beethoven makes the piano explode. He uses extreme contrasts of register that might, or might not, give him a conventionally beautiful sound. He doesn’t care. I value highly ...

On Wednesday night, András Schiff will begin the first cycle of Beethoven piano ... the sonatas, as he reveals in his set’s two extra DVDs, which contain six hourlong films of master classes ...

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 ...

Discover the best recordings of Beethoven's incredible piano sonatas on CD - click on the links to preview ... It should be augmented as follows: Daniel Barenboim was a young man when he recorded his ...

Fortunately, Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas allow a performer to do just that. Not that Op. 111 in C Minor is a very bang-y piece -- rather the opposite, in fact -- but it packs a powerful emotional ...

The 32 Beethoven piano sonatas are an ... a similar function in Daniel Barenboim’s long keyboard career. He has returned regularly to the Beethoven sonatas over the years in concert and on ...

In this recording, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim tackles the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas ...