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Pianist Alfred Brendel is now retired. I see him in a teaching role occasionally. He certainly had a distinguished career! Recently I heard him play the third movement from Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #18. For me, …

Johannes Brahms was a man quite in awe of the legacy of Beethoven. He was a composer who initially thought himself unworthy to carry on in the footsteps of the giant even though that was …

Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) on 18 April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at the Central …

For the first time today I listened to pianist Joanna Sochacka and I liked her playing a lot. Particularly her adherence to dynamics adds a lot to her performance of Beethoven’s “Tempest”sonata. The “Tempest Sonata” …

For me, music has nothing to do with age. Music is timeless. Music is about emotion, joy, sadness, and humor. Here are two generations of musicians playing together, and they surely created joy for me. …