Beethoven Archive

  Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. The legendary Italian-born pianist, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, focuses on the music of Beethoven on this excellent CD. An amazing performance of the Piano Sonata No.31 is followed by a similarly epic …

Saturday’s concert by Evgeny Kissin! Fortunately for us, as music lovers, there are many fine concerts everywhere at this time of the year. And for my friends in New York I have one terrific suggestion: …

  Beethoven: The String Quartets When you thoroughly admire and enjoy the playing of a group of performers, there’s no better gift than finally experiencing them in a live concert setting. That was the case …

  Last week, I heard violinist Joshua Bell, accompanied by the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. I liked this conductor a lot. He seemed to know the music cold, and his eye contact …

David Oistrakh plays… Violinist David Oistrakh died in 1974. Yes, it is a long time ago, but as a huge figure in the music world, I find it surprising that he has moved into obscurity. …