Like so much of Beethoven’s late music, the last three piano sonatas are dense, complex and without parallel in the history of the keyboard. The challenges may be forbidding but the rewards are huge.

It takes quite a lot of self-belief to begin your recording career for one of the world's leading classical labels in your mid-20s with Beethoven's last five sonatas, which is arguably the pinnacle of ...

Andras Schiff explores Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in an exclusive series of lecture recitals at London's Wigmore Hall. In this final instalment, listen to him dissect Piano Sonata no 32, Op 111 in C ...

Which Claudio Arrau do you like best: The young virtuoso? The elder statesman of the recording studio, whose grave, sometimes ponderous persona obliterated his younger self? Or the mature master who ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Paul Lewis explained that he had conceived his concert of late Beethoven sonatas and Ballades and Intermezzi by Brahms as a way of ...

A word of warning: don’t start with the booklet. ‘The tessellated masonry [of the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig] allows music to enter the inner space of our thoughts and feelings.’ Hmm. In his latest ...