Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

The amazing part is that there still are some tickets available for next Wednesday, when the great pianist András Schiff plays a dream program at the President’s Piano Series in Meany Theater. The ...

Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...

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 ...

Pianist Andras Schiff has immersed himself in Beethoven in a big way. He's performed all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, in chronological order, in 20 cities around the world over the past few years.

Absolutely; the focus and stamina were such that a sinking would have been impossible. Any difficulties rest with us, and I confess I have a problem with the biggest movements. Like much in late ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 A coming novel tells the story of the piano student who was the dedicatee of one of classical music’s most famous works. By Patricia ...

From NPR News, I'm Robert Siegel. And as I prepare to leave ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in a couple of weeks, I've been asked to replay an old favorite story. Well, this one is from 2003. It's about an old ...

Fritz Reiner, the legendary conductor, once led a week of rehearsals of the Chicago Symphony in Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony. Working without a score, he would stop and start, correct wrong rhythms, ...