The Emperor Concerto took me a little while to warm up to - it starts out so bombastically . But once past those massive initial tuttis so ...

Another re-visit to Beethoven's ever-fascinating Kreutzer Sonata for Violin and Piano: as with the Moonlight Sonata last week, I've ...

Time for another visual breakdown of a Beethoven work, this time Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24 "Spring" (1801).  I know ...

Today's post is a return to some analysis.  I took a pretty long break from it to try and think up some new ways to present it.  My prev...

(tiefholz.com) Vladimir Ashkenazy is a huge Beethoven fan.  Interestingly, he did not get into B. until much later in his studies, when ...