Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are the 'New Testament' of music, according to Hans von Bülow. Our selection here does not take things quite so solemnly, because we have also taken the opportunity to sho...
Of the twelve composers in our series 'At the piano', Franz Schubert was undoubtedly the least at home at the piano - but nevertheless what masterpieces he left us for this instrument! There is hardly...
Although Frédéric Chopin was one of the greatest piano virtuosos of his time, even pianists of moderate technical ability can enter into his Romantic, magical realm. His mastery was such that his own,...
Edvard Grieg was a master of the Romantic miniature for piano, and with his ten volumes of 'lyric pieces' he more or less created a new genre all on his own. These works offer an abundance of wonderfu...
