Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

Jonathan Biss's Beethoven sonata cycle is coming out at a rate of one disc a year, and his third volume consists of three works also covered by Bavouzet. Biss's style is bigger and looser, the sound ...

Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires does things her own way. These two Beethoven piano concertos are long in her repertoire, but Pires didn't record them until last October, when she was 69. And her ...