In his last sonata, Beethoven seems to have found the ultimate solution to the unity of form by resolving in one movement the conflicts of the other. The two movements contrast on a number of planes: ...
Gramophone: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110: a guide to the best recordings
Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata stands among the finest achievements of his later years. Charles Timbrell makes a personal selection from its substantial discography Beethoven’s Op 110 has ...
Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110: a guide to the best recordings
Beethoven is known for crossing all sorts of musical boundaries, and the opening to his "Kreutzer" Sonata for Violin and Piano is a brilliant example. Beethoven himself said that the sonata is written ...
A wonderful box set of all 32 of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, performed by the veteran Italian virtuoso, Maurizio Pollini, has been issued on Deutsche Grammophon/ Universal Classics. His ...
The author is a music critic and director of the classical music brand Poongwoldang. In 1804, when Beethoven composed the “Kreutzer Sonata” (1889), his primary concern was the emancipation of the ...
The Arts Desk: Beethoven Sonata Cycle 1, Boris Giltburg, Wigmore Hall review - running the gamut
Beethoven Sonata Cycle 1, Boris Giltburg, Wigmore Hall review - running the gamut
While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...
Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...