For Beethoven's 250th birthday, James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong are giving us the gift of a complete violin-sonata cycle over the course of the season. These ten beloved works are cornerstones of the ...

Northampton, MA — The Sage Chamber Music Society of Smith College presents A Beethoven Cycle II: The Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin, featuring pianist Jiayan Sun and violinist Elizabeth Chang ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Today it’s one of the most well-loved violin concertos, but it wasn’t so popular at first... Violinist ...

With Viktoria Mullova’s visionary CD performance of the Kreutzer Sonata still ringing in the ears, not to mention Renaud Capuçon’s complete set, do we need another recording of Beethoven’s sonatas for ...

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 ...

The Music: The third and last volume in a three-CD cycle. You might well come away from the first two works thinking that the ‘violin sonatas’ are actually piano concertos: the brilliance of the ...

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven, Mazzoli and Andres.

A fascinating study in comparisons, and an auspicious DG debut for Vadim Repin and Riccardo Muti. Muti’s conducting of the Concerto is leisurely, at times even a mite imperious, though always flexible ...

Beethoven composed 10 sonatas for violin and piano. All but the last were written within a comparatively brief time-span (1798-1803), so they don’t exhibit the same range and stylistic variety as the ...

These rising virtuosos are redefining the symphony. Meet six young artists bringing emotion, precision, and power to ...

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