The New York Times

Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them

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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

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 ...
The Guardian

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas – review

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 Guardian

Immense. Harrowing. Exhilarating: pianist Igor Levit on Beethoven's sonatas

As a student, Levit spent years meticulously polishing a single piano sonata. In many ways it taught him all he knows about this ‘no bullshit’ composer who wrote music of the future Opus 2, No 2. The ...
NPR

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas

Andras Schiff has called Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 ("Hammerklavier") "a monument of impenetrability" with moments of humor and "unfathomable depths of tragedy and loss." Beethoven's 32 piano ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 22-32 (Bavouzet)

Sonata for Piano No. 21, 'Waldstein' Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 22 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Sonata for Piano No.
The New Yorker

Sleepless Nights with András Schiff and Beethoven’s Sonatas

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 ...
Classic FM

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Angela Hewitt

Angela Hewitt has been universally lauded for her previous recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas. Her pin-sharp and tastefully fluent approach is now applied to four further works spanning the ...
insider.si.edu

Beethoven, Ludwig v.: The Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano [sound recording]

101 Beethoven, Ludwig v.: Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1 / Paul Olefsky, Walter Hautzig. Violoncello,Piano 201 Beethoven, Ludwig v.: Sonata No. 2 in G Minor ...
BBC

Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat, Op. 26 (Funeral March)

Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vol 4 (Lewis)

Sonata for Piano No. 5 Paul Lewis, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 6 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Paul Lewis, Piano Sonata for Piano No. 7 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer ...