Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, on period instruments, offer zest-filled and elegant readings of four Beethoven sonatas ...

In all three sonatas, the interpretive personalities of the performers merged to shape the performance. The result was a ...

As in so many other aspects of his output, Brahms was intensely self-critical about his violin sonatas. He composed his first as early as 1853, when he was just 20, which he probably played privately ...

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Sonata for Violin and Piano No 5 Ivan Donchev, Piano Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds, Violin Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer Sonata for Violin and Piano No 3 Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds, Violin Ivan Donchev, ...

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Isabelle Faust, Violin Alexander Melnikov, Piano Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Isabelle Faust, ...

Swann, one of the main characters in the novel, is a rich young man living in Paris who is connected with the highest Parisian aristocracy. At a musical soirée one evening he hears a sonata played by ...

Have you heard of the Afro-European violin virtuoso, by whom Beethoven was so impressed that he composed a sonata just for him? Here’s the story of George Bridgetower. George Augustus Polgreen ...

Maurice Ravel famously said of his own Sonata for violin and piano that both instruments are “essentially incompatible”. But when German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov ...

Richard Strauss is known for his masterful orchestral writing, for creating huge walls of sound with the orchestra in his tone poems. He also had a delicate touch with chamber music, though he didn't ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist. His music is treated with a reverence that can sometimes hide the intellect and passion he intended to convey to the audiences of his era. The first ...