C minor turbulence doesn’t just colour Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3. It also informs his Pathétique Sonata – the inspiration behind Anna Clyne’s Stride which shadows it with breezy tongue-in-cheek ...

In Beethoven’s relatively short life he devoted significant time to composing for the instrument that he made his own: the piano. Even though Beethoven composed nine astonishing Symphonies, sonatas, ...

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Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two works for solo clarinet, performed by Tamara Stefanovich, the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.

History as it is made by great composers is not a history of conservation, but of destruction - even while cherishing what is destroyed', he wrote, and in his explosive Second Piano Sonata of 1947 ...

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Still boyish-looking at 54, Andsnes channeled the 22-year-old Edvard Grieg as the Leipzig-trained composer reached for the grandeur of the German Romantic school in his lone sonata for piano. Happily, ...