But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them ... the earlier of his two cycles, made in the late 1960s for EMI, but even this is flawed by ...

A late chapter in this same story arrived with the composition of the Hammerklavier in 1818, by which time Beethoven had become, in JWN Sullivan’s words, ‘the great solitary’, ‘a man of infinite ...

He has extended his work to write on the liturgical background of Haydn's late masses, a brief history of music at Boston College, and provided record liner notes for Penelope Crawford's recording of ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...