Here are two musicians a generation apart, feeding off each other’s energy. Ralph Kirshbaum and Shai Wosner’s long tour of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano culminated earlier this year ...

“Yun-chan, the older brother, was the one who first mentioned Beethoven’s name,” said cellist Han Jae-min, 20 years old, laughing during a June 29 interview. Han and pianist Lim Yun-chan, 22 years old ...

Well, not quite complete – there’s no Op.64, Beethoven’s arrangement of his early Piano Trio. But all five sonatas and three sets of variations are here. Alfred is the dominant force throughout, a ...

The cello sonata as we know it today was effectively created by Beethoven in the two virtuosic Sonatas, Op 5, he wrote in 1796 for the King of Prussia. The composer added three more, the largest and ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is beloved around the world for both the grandeur of his musical vision and the intimacy of his emotional journey. His music speaks straight to the heart and makes a direct ...

Part of the charm and the privilege, of course, is to hear the resonance of strings and piano at such electrifyingly close quarters; a nod here, though it was more of a private event, to the stunning ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 Alisa Weilerstein, Cello Inon Barnatan, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 Alisa Weilerstein, Cello Inon Barnatan, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 Alisa ...

Beethoven was a tiny, unimpressive-looking man, with a pock-marked face, messy hair and questionable hygiene. And yet his personality has dominated the imaginations of music-lovers for the past 200 ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 Alfred Brendel, Piano Adrian Brendel, Cello Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 4 Adrian Brendel, Cello Alfred Brendel, Piano Ludwig van ...