Long after most of my grandmother’s memories had faded, she would occasionally sit down at the piano bench, pull a yellowing score from a nearby shelf, and begin to play. Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without ...

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I wondered, at the close of Schiff’s Sunday-morning solo recital at the Proms, why it had been so short. But it hadn’t: our pre-lunch banquet had delivered 80-odd minutes of sublime music, with an ...

Pianist Andras Schiff has immersed himself in Beethoven in a big way. He's performed all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, in chronological order, in 20 cities around the world over the past few years.

Few musicians in the world are as intimately familiar with Beethoven's piano sonatas as Daniel Barenboim, who has been e | ...