Of all the musical genres (that word again), the Piano Sonata is the only one that Beethoven worked on more or less consistently throughout his life. No large gaps as with the Symphonies or String ...

Not so long ago, every pianist of real stature would make a pilgrimage on record through Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. Pianists nowadays tend to pick and mix their discs - recording a bit of Schubert ...

Having been troubled again in recent years by the hand problem that originated in the 1990s when a bone abnormality on his thumb required a series of career-threatening operations, Murray Perahia has ...