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Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps a musical universe around Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, exploring the sound worlds of Mozart, Holst and Saint-Saëns along the way. Show more Piano Sonata No. 14 ...

renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata are ...

Kempff was one of the few pianists of his generation who avoided ponderousness in the Moonlight’s middle movement ... In matters of musical diction, lucidity matters. Not long before the sonata’s end, ...

After listening to pianist Jon Batiste’s most recent record album, Blues, for the umpteenth time, I reveled in the fact that this is “easy listening” music that could provide the soundtrack for the ...

It includes poems from Beethoven’s point of view, as he struggles with deafness and rejection by the woman for whom he wrote the “Moonlight Sonata.” “Part of the solving or the resolution ...

"Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata calms me down when I reach my breaking point," the late NBA legend tweeted in 2013 alongside a photo of himself playing the piano. An ESPN profile following Bryant's ...