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The Music: Rather than ploughing through the 32 Beethoven sonatas in chronological order, Jonathan Biss has picked four sonatas to launch his set that includes three distinctly un-obvious works.

Piano Trio in D Major, Op.70 No.1: 1. Allegro vivace e con brio Piano Trio in D Major, Op.70 No.1: 2. Largo assai ed espressivo Piano Trio in D Major, Op.70 No.1: 3. Presto String Quartet No.10, Op.74 ...

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven is the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, covering Beethovens life to 1816. Thayer became aware of many discrepancies in the already existing ...

My goodness, here is something special. Volume 1 in a new recording of Beethoven's complete string quartets is a stunner. The group, the Quartetto di Cremona, was established in 2000 and has been ...

Beethoven composed 10 sonatas for violin and piano. All but the last were written within a comparatively brief time-span (1798-1803), so they don’t exhibit the same range and stylistic variety as the ...

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: I. Allegro con brio Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: II. Largo Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: III. Rondo ...

Trio Con Brio launched their Beethoven piano trio cycle earlier this year with a pairing of the Op 1 No 1 and Ghost Trios plus the Kakadu Variations whose exuberance and clarity more than exemplified ...