During the school year of 2014-2015, world-renowned artists Miriam Fried, violin and Jonathan Biss, piano (01) returned to Curtis for a residency which entailed working with students in a violin and ...

With Viktoria Mullova’s visionary CD performance of the Kreutzer Sonata still ringing in the ears, not to mention Renaud Capuçon’s complete set, do we need another recording of Beethoven’s sonatas for ...

Anne-Sophie Mutter is the modern classical record company's dream artist; not only is the 39-year-old German violinist a musician of near peerless virtuosity and unimpeachable integrity, but she is… ...

Beethoven composed 10 sonatas for violin and piano. All but the last were written within a comparatively brief time-span (1798-1803), so they don’t exhibit the same range and stylistic variety as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Music: The third and last volume in a three-CD cycle. You might well come away from the first two works thinking that the ‘violin sonatas’ are actually piano concertos: the brilliance of the ...

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 ...

Adrian Spence does not pussyfoot around when talking about the relevance of Beethoven. The founder and artistic director of ...

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 ...