Beethoven Archive

Performing with Mr. Revich is the pianist Fiorenzo Pascalucci. Beethoven composed his Kreutzer Sonata for Piano and Violin in 1803. Beethoven understood how different this new sonata was from any that had come before, including …

Beethoven composed five works for the relatively unusual form of string trio, violin, viola, and cello. His first two works in this form, opus 3 and opus 8, are in the character of divertimentos, popular …

The three Beethoven piano sonatas Opus 109, 110 and 111, were written between 1820 and 1822. As his sketchbooks show, these three sonatas were worked on all at the same time and may thus be …

Both of Beethoven’s 19th and 20th piano sonatas form his Op. 49 (respectively numbers 1 and 2). They are short, relatively simple pieces, and it is often said that their 1805 publishing was made out …

Formed in 2005, the Chiaroscuro Quartet comprises violinists Alina Ibragimova (Russia) and Pablo Hernán Benedí (Spain), the Swedish violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion from France. This international ensemble performs music of the Classical …