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Leif Ove Andsnes combines art and contemporary affairs in a brilliant opener to the fall piano festival at Prague's Rudolfinum.

As part of the “Life is Live” summer festival, Igor Levit gives a stunning solo performance of four Beethoven sonatas.

The French-Canadian pianist replaced an ailing Rudolf Buchbinder, kicking off the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society's first complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle.

Beethoven 250 – no fewer than three Sonatas, 21 variations, a fugue, two bagatelles and six écossaises – delivered with urgent energy and exuberant joy by Kissin.

Kissin the mature artist speaks to Beethoven's architectural depths in the Swiss mountains. 

This concert at Usher Hall delivered extraordinary playing, in repertoire ranging from Beethoven to Bernstein and Sibelius.

Intimacy mixes with grandeur in Beethoven playing of rare authority in Berlin.

Maurizio Pollini demonstrated why people still flock to hear him perform in sonatas by Beethoven and miniatures by Schoenberg.

Rafał Blechacz is known within the piano world as the winner of the 2005 Chopin International Piano Competition, but on the whole, he has kept a fairly low media profile since. 

Still partying on: John Lill's 70th birthday celebrations continue with a Beethoven recital in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

The fact that Schubert’s four D.899 piano pieces are called “Impromptus” can seem incongruous: after all, they are formally structured pieces which are carefully scored with great subtlety, and performing them has little to do with spur-of-the-moment improvisation.

An impassioned evening of Beethoven was drawn from the fingertips of the fascinating young pianist Shuann Chai last Wednesday in Utrecht’s Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh. Presenting three of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most well-known sonatas for piano, the Pathétique, Moonlight, and Appassionata, Ms. Chai wove an intriguing and constantly changing musical soundscape.

Love was definitely in the air at Freddy Kempf’s St. Valentine’s Day Concert. He gave a passion-filled performance of Beethoven’s Sonata in C minor, Op. 13, ‘Pathétique’ to open the night, which was fitting with the nature of the title. The true ‘Pathétique’ should have passionate expression that should be felt by the heart and transcend mere variations in tempo.

Bringing to a close this season of Music Up Close concerts, Nikolai Demidenko delighted a packed Haddington Town House with a programme of Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. The programme opened with two much loved Beethoven works: Piano Sonata in C minor, 'Pathétique' Op. 13 and Piano Sonata in C# minor, 'Moonlight' Op. 27 No. 2.