David Dubal on the “Hammerklavier.” ...

In this vast, single-movement composition, Franz Liszt achieved a synthesis of symphonic and sonata forms that has never been surpassed for its cogency, scope and imagination. He managed this in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pianist’s severe, analytical style engages with two of the most challenging works in the repertoire to produce a disc of compelling, muscular authority It took Maurizio Pollini more than 30 years ...

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on May 25, 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...

When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.

Tim Parry talks to Nelson Goerner about the special qualities of Brahms’s finest piano sonata Brahms composed three piano sonatas – Opp 1, 2 and 5. As the numbers suggest, these are all early works, ...

Having made the first drafts of "Piano Sonata No. 2" in the spring of 1910, Szymanowski completed it the following summer in Tymoszówka. Having made the first drafts of Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 21 in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...