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 ...

Mullova sets a new benchmark for the Beethoven violin sonatas. Her disc has two defining characteristics – the “period” approach she and Bezuidenhout adopt, and the volatility and danger they find in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beethoven Violin Sonata #9 Op. 47 “Kreutzer”: Adagio sostenuto - presto, Andante con variazioni, presto; Franck Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano: Allegretto ben moderato, allegro, Ben Moderato ...

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 ...

Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: I. Presto Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23: II. Andante scherzoso, più allegretto Violin Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op ...

THERE’S a story about Beethoven, that one of his violinist friends complained about the endless note-spinning and other technical tortures of the great man’s works. Hearing this, Beethoven turned to a ...

During the school year of 2014-2015, world-renowned artists Miriam Fried, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano (01) returned to Curtis for a residency which entailed working with students in a violin and ...

Beethoven’s violin sonatas have always been in the shadow of his much better-known piano sonatas and trios and quartets. They’re slight works on the whole, graceful and sprightly rather than grand, ...

It is always a worthy question to ask when a pairing like Beethoven's notorious "Kreutzer" sonata with Franck's frankly demonic violin sonata, not to mention the inspired inclusion of Kreisler's ...