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Sir András Schiff’s seventh visit to Toronto’s Koerner Hall was an almost three-hour-long feast of “quality” music by his musical heroes.

Sometimes artists surprise, but in a wholly positive way: nothing remotely bland about Buchbinder's approach to Beethoven's C minor concerto and a Tchaikovsky 1 streets ahead of Järvi's recent recording.

In a magical outdoor environment, one of the elder statesmen of French piano traces the progression of Beethoven's style through his sonatas.

Scriabin and Liszt juxtaposed at Wigmore Hall, with rare and tender Schubert and a thoughtful Beethoven Tempest. 

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

The pianist artfully puts together a program of great feeling with no overt thematic thread but a strong emotional one.

The Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams, in sync with an appreciative audience, offers Beethoven both lyrical and profound.

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. 

The gifted Norwegian pianist brought a programme of varied and demanding works to the fourth recital of Lucerne’s renowned Piano Festival.

Jonathan Biss is embarking on a traversal of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, and his playing is characterized by an ideal balance of intellectual rigor and emotional expression.  

Angela Hewitt: formidable de Falla and sensual Albéniz made up for overwrought Scarlatti at the Royal Northern College of Music.   

Fazıl Say plays at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées.

In a similar vein to the previous evening’s rather German-orientated “Grosse Streichquartette” concert given by the Artemis Quartet, tonight’s mozart@augsburg concert contained Beethoven piano sonatas interspersed with recitations: a “Sea of Harmony”. It was also to be the last of the festival’s concerts that I was to experience this year.

Although this was ostensibly a recital featuring the music of two composers, a third, much less venerable one, also managed to leave his mark on proceedings. The figure in question is Carl Czerny, the one-time pupil of Beethoven’s whose banal piano studies proved to be the springboard for the first of Claude Debussy’s own, far more inventive forays into the genre.

Long recognised worldwide as a player of virtuosity and poise, it’s hard to pigeon-hole British pianist Imogen Cooper, though she has undoubtedly made her mark with her interpretations of classical repertoire (her ‘Schubert Live’ recordings have received much critical acclaim).

Sir Andràs Schiff ofreció un concierto estelar en la primera semana del Festival Internacional de Santander.

Peu après Mikhaïl Pletnev et Alexander Malofeev, Nikolaï Lugansky est venu compléter le panorama de l'école russe du piano et montrer qu'il en était le patron, au fil d'un récital une nouvelle fois époustouflant.

Dans la grande salle Pierre Boulez, le pianiste a proposé un programme passionnant, d'une grande intelligence mais limité par une technique pianistique et un imaginaire sonore particuliers.

Si le jeu du jeune pianiste russe impressionne, son interprétation des œuvres déroute plus d'une fois.

El pianista András Schiff debutó en el Festival de Granada con un recital de obras de Bach y Beethoven con una íntima conexión entre ellas.

Igor Levit lässt beim Musikfest Berlin den Flügel zum Orchester werden, Trommelwirbel und Posaunenchor inklusive.

Dans la petite église de Neuville-Bosc, la pianiste a interprété un programme magnifiquement agencé, de Beethoven à Liszt en passant par Chopin et Schumann.

Evgeny Kissin ofreció un recital bajo el auspicio de Ibermúsica en el que nos descubrió su personal y poderosa visión de las sonatas de Beethoven. 

Étourdissant, le pianiste a réalisé une performance de haut vol lors d'une soirée intégralement consacrée à Beethoven.

À la Philharmonie de Paris, la pianiste déçoit dans un récital intégralement consacré à Beethoven, malgré quelques pages magnifiques sur le plan sonore.

Khatia Buniatishvili interpreta cuatro de las sonatas más conocidas de Beethoven en el ciclo "Grandes Intérpretes" de la Fundación Scherzo haciendo alarde de virtuosismo y expresividad.

La Fondation Louis Vuitton ouvre ses portes au jeune pianiste Albert Cano Smit. Retour sur un récital inspiré dans lequel l'artiste met en miroir Bach, Ligeti, Beethoven, Scriabine et Schumann.

Andreas Steier liebt die historisch informierte Aufführungspraxis und diesen Klang, und weiß auch, diesen zu erzeugen.