Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

On this unexpected 3-CD set, he plays all 5 concertos with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages.

We count down the 21 greatest piano concertos - the finest works ever written for piano with orchestra ...

Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most influential composers in the history of Western classical music. Born on December 16, 1770, in Bonn, Germany. Beethoven’s life and work bridged the ...

When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in night haunts in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The pianist Stewart Goodyear plays the standards brilliantly, and also writes music that nods to rock and calypso. By Anthony Tommasini The Canadian ...

'All people become brothers.' Beethoven’s epic final symphony, a vision for music and for humanity. Beethoven, by this time almost entirely deaf, conducted the premiere performance of his Choral ...