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 ...

Classical music can be carved up in all sorts of ways, but one way seems ideally clear-cut. There’s music, and there’s music for opera. One takes place in concert halls, and is listened to for its ...

SOUNDING above the warring of the years, Over their stretch of toils and pains and fears, Comes the well-loved refrain, That ancient voice again. Sweeter than when beside the river’s marge We lay and ...

When Russian-born pianist Igor Levit dropped in to play Beethoven at the Tiny Desk, he admitted he was – even after four cups of coffee – "still in my time zone change." A little jet-lagged, he had ...