A musicien plays on a piano made by Peugeot Design Lab and Pleyel on media day at the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile September 27, 2012. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen PARIS (Reuters) - Pleyel, the illustrious ...
"He has the strength to fight the impact of the orchestra," composer Jörg Widmann says about pianist Yefim Bronfman. "It’s a large orchestra, and it comes over him like waves." Widmann is describing ...
Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...