A fascinating study in comparisons, and an auspicious DG debut for Vadim Repin and Riccardo Muti. Muti’s conducting of the Concerto is leisurely, at times even a mite imperious, though always flexible ...

Beethoven is lionized as a composer and artist. His music is treated with a reverence that can sometimes hide the intellect and passion he intended to convey to the audiences of his era. The first ...

Carolin Widmann (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano) ECM New Series 476 6744 *****:The first of Schumann's three violin sonatas gets the lion's share of attention while the third hardly gets any at all.

Prague-born Erwin Schulhoff is one of those composers whose posthumous fortune has been lifted by the interest over the past two decades in the entartete musik ...

Northampton, MA — The Sage Chamber Music Society of Smith College presents A Beethoven Cycle II: The Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin, featuring pianist Jiayan Sun and violinist Elizabeth Chang ...

“Now Hear This” host Scott Yoo performs an excerpt from Mozart’s Violin Sonata, K. 305 with pianist Natalia Bolshakova from the Sinquefield Music Center at the University of Missouri. David Meyers is ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ibragimova and Osborne created a sensation with their two Prokofiev sonatas at last summer’s City of London Festival, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Confession time: I had never previously rated Grieg’s three sonatas for violin and piano, probably because I had ...