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 ...

Throughout his life, various pianos came into Beethoven's possession.These included the French Érard, the Viennese piano maker Streicher, and the English Broadwood.Among them, the Broadwood grand ...

Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

As he prepares to perform Beethoven’s Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos with the SCO, Sunwook Kim tells David Kettle about his unique approach to the composer’s work ...

Artur Schnabel, one of the game-changing pianists of the 20th century and one of the first piano stars of the phonograph, is being celebrated today by the Library of Congress. His recordings of ...

From Amsterdam’s Dutch Summer Concerts, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson joins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor ...

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 ...

Though he is perhaps not as well known to British concert-goers as he might be, the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, now in his mid-60s, is highly regarded elsewhere in Europe, especially as an ...

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 ...

Lynn Schugren, a longtime musician and music instructor in Nevada City, is gearing up for a special concert September 20, ...