Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...

Artur Pizarro plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight) ... but the rest of the work contains some of the most turbulent music Beethoven ever wrote.

Ivan Hewett’s Classic 50 No 14: Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4, Andante. The latest in Ivan Hewett’s 50-part series on short works by the world’s greatest composers.

Imagine now you’re sitting in a hall during the first decade of the 19th century. A pianist is walking on stage to perform the Moonlight, completed in 1801, but your programme lists it as Piano Sonata ...

A wonderful box set of all 32 of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, performed by the veteran Italian virtuoso, Maurizio Pollini, has been issued on Deutsche Grammophon/ Universal Classics. His ...

Saoirse Ronan, 17, from Co Carlow, Ireland, had never played the piano before but she was asked to play the role of a music-loving vampire in Byzantine.

At the center of my program was Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A flat (Op. 110), ... The Times’ chief classical music critic, Anthony Tommasini, at the piano in 1982.