Sonata Archive

Khatia Buniatishvili’s first Schubert recording includes Schubert’s great final Piano Sonata (D 960), the 4 wonderful Impromptus, and the song ‘Ständchen’ (arr.by Liszt). Khatia will be performing this repertoire on a worldwide tour, including London’s …

Karl Leister is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik …

Last night, as the last event of the day, I listened to a recording of pianist Grigory Sokolv as he played at a concert in Paris. The first selection on the program was the Sonata …

Music is often a matter of taste. Over the past 48 hours I have listened to several,pianist perform the Mozart piano sonata number 14. In each case, according to my taste, the tempo of each …

Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli died on June 12, 1995, in Lugano, Switzerland    . For me, he will always be a pianist whose music brings me a lot of enjoyment. While his repertoire was not huge, …