Two approaches to Beethoven's sonatas which could not be more strongly contrasted: Kurosaki is well known as a period-instrument orchestral leader, while Dusinberre is the leader of the Takács Quartet ...

Edward Dusinberre brings the same wonderfully subtle and intensely musical qualities to these two violin sonatas as he does to Beethoven's quartets in his day job as leader of the peerless Takács ...

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 Michael Foyle, Violin Maksim Štšura, Piano Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 Michael Foyle, Violin Maksim Štšura, Piano Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5, 'Spring' ...

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 ...

Two members of the Bates music faculty present the complete series of Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano in three concerts in the coming weeks. Violinist Dean Stein and pianist Chiharu Naruse ...

Beethoven is known for crossing all sorts of musical boundaries, and the opening to his "Kreutzer" Sonata for Violin and Piano is a brilliant example. Beethoven himself said that the sonata is written ...

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 ...

The most famous of Beethoven’s violin sonatas have nicknames. The Spring is named for its air of pastoral ease – although that choice of name had nothing to do with the composer. The Kreutzer got its ...

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6 Susanna Ogata, Violin Ian Watson, Fortepiano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Piano No. 7 Ian Watson, Fortepiano Susanna Ogata, Violin Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Maurice Ravel famously said of his own Sonata for violin and piano that both instruments are “essentially incompatible”. But when German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov ...

Frances Fyfield returns to the Austrian National Library to examine the score of Beethoven's beautiful sonata for violin and piano that became known later as the 'Spring' sonata. Show more Although ...