Helene Grimaud Plays My Favorite Beethoven Sonata
I have listened to a whole lot of pianists perform the Sonata #31, Opus 110 by Beethoven. Today I heard Ms. Grimaud play it, and I was in awe! What sound, and what a lyricism! …
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Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #27, Op. 90
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutragen. (With liveliness and with feeling and expression throughout. Not too fast, …
Beethoven’s Symphony #1
It was a bold step for Beethoven to write his first symphony when Haydn’s final work in the same form was just five years old and Mozart’s Jupiter just twelve. But this was perhaps the …
Yeol Eum Son Plays Beethoven’s Concerto #4
Yeol Eum Son is a Korean-born pianist who now lives in Germany. I love her playing! Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 emerges with unexpected gentleness. In 1807, when this music was first heard, any reasonably …
Igor Levit Performs Beethoven’s “Waldstein Sonata”
This sonata was composed by Beethoven in 1804 and dedicated to count Ferdinand von Waldstein, his first protector in Bonn, the one who arranged for Beethoven to study with Haydn in Vienna. That is why …