Here are two musicians a generation apart, feeding off each other’s energy. Ralph Kirshbaum and Shai Wosner’s long tour of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano culminated earlier this year ...

Each day this week pianist Schiff talks with Fred Child about the Beethoven cello sonatas he played with cellist Miklos Perenyi last summer at the Schwetzingen Festival, in Germany. From that concert, ...

To launch our Fifteenth Anniversary Season, founding Artistic Directors Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park will present a marathon performance of Beethoven’s complete sonatas for cello and piano. These ...

From Kloetzel and Koenig to Weilerstein and Barnatan, a flurry of new Beethoven double acts each offer something new. And Palaver Strings revel in the work of women through the ages Beethoven’s music ...

Kahchun Wong is continuing to put his own stamp on landmark works of the mainstream repertory with the Hallé. This time it was Beethoven’s Symphony no. 3 – the Eroica.

Ludwig van Beethoven is beloved around the world for both the grandeur of his musical vision and the intimacy of his emotional journey. His music speaks straight to the heart and makes a direct ...

Part of the charm and the privilege, of course, is to hear the resonance of strings and piano at such electrifyingly close quarters; a nod here, though it was more of a private event, to the stunning ...

The cello sonata as we know it today was effectively created by Beethoven in the two virtuosic Sonatas, Op 5, he wrote in 1796 for the King of Prussia. The composer added three more, the largest and ...

Well, not quite complete – there’s no Op.64, Beethoven’s arrangement of his early Piano Trio. But all five sonatas and three sets of variations are here. Alfred is the dominant force throughout, a ...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has a tough job living up to expectations. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called him the "world's greatest living cellist." Annan has appointed Ma to the post of "UN peace ...