A few weekends ago, I attended a marathon performance of all of Beethoven's violin sonatas in a single concert, organized by ...

When Beethoven composed the “Kreutzer Sonata,” his primary concern was the emancipation of the piano. He elevated what had ...

Some music stays with you. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is one of those pieces. Gentle, quiet, almost like a whisper—but full of feeling. It’s the kind of music that makes you pause, reflect, and get ...

But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them. The sonatas make up a wonderfully diverse yet utterly cogent and self-contained body of work.

Thanks to recording engineer Robert Zeichner, IPR listeners can hear a 1971 recording of cellist Bernard Greenhouse and ...

For Hank Hehmsoth, music has been more than a passion; it has been a calling, a legacy, and a lifelong journey that began at ...

The exact mechanism as to how this happened remains unclear, however, scientists opine that it could be due to rhythm, frequency, or intensity of the music. Further experiments, including Brazilian ...