Though Murray Perahia's recording of the five Beethoven piano concertos is a staple of the catalogue, he has seriously neglected the Beethoven piano sonatas on disc. In this first of a series, he has ...

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Reticence also underlines the slow movement of Op 127, six variations and coda on a beatific theme. Adagio again, initially, but now non troppo, the time signature of 12/8 probably meant to be a brake ...

String Quartet No. 12 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Brentano Quartet String Quartet No. 14 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Brentano Quartet ...

For any string quartet, performances of the late Beethoven quartets represents the summit of their craft, a challenge to stretch their intellectual and musical powers to their limits. Just as ...

On Saturday-Sunday, March 4-5, the Takács Quartet resumed its series of the complete Beethoven string quartets in Berkeley’s Hertz Hall. Begun in October of 2016, this series presents all of Beethoven ...

There comes a time in the life of most string quartets when, for better or worse, Beethoven must be confronted. For the acclaimed Belcea Quartet (named after its first violinist Corina Belcea), that ...