Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

From Haydn and Beethoven to Weinberg and Rachmaninov, Marc-André Hamelin reveals the piano sonata as a form of breadth, ...

From solo guitar to virtuosic violin, here are some of the most innovative takes on Beethoven’s iconic piano sonata. In 1801, great composer Ludwig van Beethoven sat down to pen another great piano ...

The popular nickname of the 'Moonlight' for the second sonata of Op. 27 may be a fair title for the first movement, but the rest of the work contains some of the most turbulent music Beethoven ever ...

Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata stands among the finest achievements of his later years. Charles Timbrell makes a personal selection from its substantial discography Beethoven’s Op 110 has ...

From Mozart to Prokofiev, here's a beginner's guide to 10 of the greatest piano sonatas ever written 'By common consent, Mitsuko Uchida is among the leading Mozart pianists of today, and her recorded ...

Fabian Müller plays Beethoven's third piano concerto with the German Symphony Orchestra.

The question seems like it has a simple answer that everyone knows because sonatas are everywhere in classical music. It’s ...