Here's the last of the ScoreVideo posts...this one covers everything not previously covered in piano sonatas , symphonies (in full scor...

Continuing my mini-series listing "ScoreVideos" (Youtube videos where the score is displayed as the music plays) we now get to th...

“Alfred Brendel on Music—collected Essays” Having Alfred Brendel accompany his son on the Beethoven Cello Sonatas yesterday inspired me t...

(www.get-tuned.com) Last year I was fortunate to find the complete Beethoven cello sonatas on Youtube performed by Sviatoslav Richter and...

I know I've come back to the Diabelli Variations a few times before - but this is one of those works which traverses so much territory...

Time for more visual analysis... I've posted about the Moonlight Sonata before (tho not all 3 movements) so I decided what the heck, mi...

I've posted about the Pathetique sonata before (1st Movement in somewhat more detail) but this time I'm trying a color analysis aga...

Beethoven's Cello Sonata 5 (in D Major Op.102, No. 2 (1815)) is another one of those pieces where the late-period Ludwig just floors me ...

Sometimes I get asked - What do you recommend as far as essential Beethoven goes? And someday I'll have to sit down and answer that qu...

Following along to the score adds immensely to the experience of listening to Beethoven (or any classical music, really).  For most pop or r...

(Infused with the energy of the Hammer-Piano!) Beethoven's greatest piano work is "arguably" Opus 106, the "Hammerklav...

Whenever I hear the words "Moonlight Sonata" I always initially think of the slow and hypnotic 1st Movement.  However the first ti...