A wonderful box set of all 32 of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, performed by the veteran Italian virtuoso, Maurizio Pollini, has been issued on Deutsche Grammophon/ Universal Classics. His ...
Seventy-eight years before Thomas Edison gave the world the light bulb, Ludwig van Beethoven composed “Moonlight Sonata,” one of the most popular compositions in classical music. I read somewhere that ...
A timeless classical music hit, Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is the inspiration for this year's Beethovenfest in Bonn. It's been performed all over the world and has even been sent into outer space.
It has been recorded by everyone from Geza Anda to Dieter Zechlin. Forward-looking, iconoclastic modern pianists record it; so do classicists, and big-name stars give it a try. With more than 80 ...
The music of Beethoven is often flagged for its extraordinary emotional power. But look here, how affecting it is even to a really tiny tot. Sitting eagerly in the audience for his older sister’s ...
Keys paid a moving tribute to basketball legend Kobe Bryant with Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata – which Bryant had learned to play on piano for his wife, Vanessa. Last night, family and friends of ...
Alicia Keys performed a heartfelt rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" for Kobe and Gianna Bryant's Celebration of Life ceremony at the NBA legend's old stomping grounds at Los Angeles'… By ...
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. -- A 92-year-old pianist is wowing her audience. Elaine Lebar suffers from dementia but remembers her love for music. She recently went viral on TikTok with a performance of ...
At its core, the heartfelt documentary “Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements” is an intimate, often vérité look at how hearing loss affects three generations of a close-knit Portland, Ore., ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Slowly spiralling chords in the right hand. Deep, sinking bass in the left. The opening to Beethoven’s ...