It was barely 10:01 a.m. when pianist Stewart Goodyear sat at a Steinway concert grand at the Mondavi Center. Time was of the essence, for this concert performance would not end until 13 hours later.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On January 31, pianist Rudolf Buchbinder's live performance (as pianist and ...

Beethoven's opus 30 'middle' violin sonatas point the way toward his later work. 'They have something of the incredible depth and drama of the later pieces,' said Julian Rachlin. Beethoven wrote the ...

Beethoven’s close friend and biographer Anton Schindler wrote that the composer entered a different spiritual realm during the composition of the “Missa Solemnis.” That work, widely considered one of ...

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 ...

As a year of great peril for the performing arts draws to a close, with concert cancellations putting a major dampener on celebrations of the 250th anniversary of composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth ...

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 ...

“Beethoven. Grand master of chamber music, sonata, variation and symphony. What other composer covered, within his life, such vast musical distances? We pianists are fortunate to have the chance to ...

With live concerts cancelled indefinitely, we're at least lucky we live in the age of recorded music. After all, for most of human history, there was no such thing. Now there's an effectively infinite ...

What a difference a day makes at Benaroya Hall! On Sunday afternoon, there was Lang Lang, all spectacular flash and dash at the piano, playing two concerti with the Seattle Symphony to a packed house ...