The Atlantic

The Symphony Illustrated by Beethoven's Fifth in C Minor

A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...
BBC

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight)

The popular nickname of the 'Moonlight' for the second sonata of Op. 27 may be a fair title for the first movement, but the rest of the work contains some of the most turbulent music Beethoven ever ...
The Irish Times

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas in A Flat Op 110; in C minor Op 111; in F Minor Op 57 (Appassionata)

Which Claudio Arrau do you like best: The young virtuoso? The elder statesman of the recording studio, whose grave, sometimes ponderous persona obliterated his younger self? Or the mature master who ...
WQXR

Valentina Lisitsa Plays Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, 'Moonlight'

Valentina Lisitsa performs Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight," recorded in The Greene Space on Nov. 20, 2011. Lisitsa, a Ukrainian-American pianist, has built a ...
BroadwayWorld

The 92nd Street Y Presents Rafal Blechacz, Piano, Plays Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, And More

Young Polish pianist and International Chopin Competition winner Rafał Blechacz returns to the 92Y stage with a program of works moving from Bach to early and middle Beethoven, chronicling a musical ...