Note to Readers: This column is switching gears to review the complete Andras Schiff and Idil Biret Beethoven Sonata cycles. One sonata will be addressed at a time. This will be more orderly than ...

This pared-back recording, which uses period-accurate instruments, makes Beethoven's thrilling music sound neat and prissy Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

Absolutely; the focus and stamina were such that a sinking would have been impossible. Any difficulties rest with us, and I confess I have a problem with the biggest movements. Like much in late ...

The easeful interplay between pianist Alasdair Beatson and violinist Viktoria Mullova stands out on these three sunny sonatas ‘Optimistic, ebullient and inexhaustibly inventive” is how the pianist ...

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In a recent Gramophone interview (5/20), Thomas Adès conjured the image of Gerald Barry ‘prowling around rehearsals with a metronome in hand: one of those things that quickens every conductor’s pulse!