After the expectant introduction to the Allegro assai, the first movement proceeds with virtually unrelenting vigour and, for the first time in a Beethoven sonata first movement, the customary ...

In his next sonata ( Op. 90 ) he would reject Italian ... material for both the first and second subject groups of the main Allegro, and while it adds an obviously programmatic element to the ...

Irish violinist Daniel Hope is a distinguished ambassador of classical music, boasting a successful international solo career ...