sonatas Archive

Cellist János Starker and pianist György Sebök, both born in Hungary in the early 1920’s, made a musical team for some 60 years. These recordings were made in 1959 in Paris, where they both found …

Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien have a record of showing me their excellent musical interpretations. Our post today features some works that are less well know, coupled with an established crowd pleaser: The Cesar Franck …

On this recording, Seong-Jin Cho’s artistry probes multiple musical layers of three Mozart masterworks: The Piano concerto #20, the Piano Sonata #3, and the sonata #12. He opens this new album with a dynamic interpretation of …

This recording allows us to listen to the heavenly sounds of Schubert’s last piano sonata and his second set of impromptus: Marc-André Hamelin captures the other-worldliness of these sublime, quintessentially ‘late’ works as do few other …

This is a recording made many years ago. Yet the permanence and longevity of this music speaks to the excellence of the following: Composers: Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Works: Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 1 in …