The cello sonata as we know it today was effectively created by Beethoven in the two virtuosic Sonatas, Op 5, he wrote in 1796 for the King of Prussia. The composer added three more, the largest and ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 Alisa Weilerstein, Cello Inon Barnatan, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 Alisa Weilerstein, Cello Inon Barnatan, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 Alisa ...

Here are two musicians a generation apart, feeding off each other’s energy. Ralph Kirshbaum and Shai Wosner’s long tour of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano culminated earlier this year ...

Well, not quite complete – there’s no Op.64, Beethoven’s arrangement of his early Piano Trio. But all five sonatas and three sets of variations are here. Alfred is the dominant force throughout, a ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 Robert DeMaine, Cello Peter Takács, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 Robert DeMaine, Cello Peter Takács, Piano Sonata for ...

Part of the charm and the privilege, of course, is to hear the resonance of strings and piano at such electrifyingly close quarters; a nod here, though it was more of a private event, to the stunning ...

The Canadian-born French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras is best known as a member, with Tabea Zimmermann and friends, of the Arcanto Quartet, but his career as an elegant soloist of Gallic poise and ...

It’s easy to forget that the instruments that make the music we so enjoy weren’t always the exact specimens we see now on the concert stage. Take the piano, for instance, has its roots the harpsichord ...

Last year marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, but planned celebratory concerts in Singapore had to be cancelled or deferred because of the Covid-19 ...