Beethoven Archive

  Stephen Hough’s new recording: “In the Night” This latest recording by pianist Stephen Hough takes the listener on a journey through that most intense and absorbing of nineteenth-century obsessions, the night. Stephen Hough’s thoughtful …

  Lugansky’s Beethoven. Pianist Nikolai Lugansky has recorded an intriguing Beethoven recital, combining two famous sonatas with two other less well known but masterful works, the Op.10, number 3, and the Op. 54. Lugansky’s amazing …

  Martha Argerich and Friends. There are so many wonderful living pianists right now! Among them are Evgeny Kissin, Daniel Barenboim, Yuja Wang and many more. Yet one of my own great favorites is still …

  The Best of Glenn Gould‘s Bach. So much has been written about the excitement caused by Glenn Gould’s first recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in June 1955 that it is hardly necessary to repeat …

  Bell, Wang, and Beethoven. Take two world-class performers; add a music masterpiece composed by Beethoven; and watch the fireworks! Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the year 1770; and he was actively composing some …