It was fascinating to listen to Alexei Lubimov playing Beethoven's last three sonatas on an Alois Graff piano of 1828, just a few days after hearing Maurizio Pollini's magisterial accounts of the same ...

It takes quite a lot of self-belief to begin your recording career for one of the world's leading classical labels in your mid-20s with Beethoven's last five sonatas, which is arguably the pinnacle of ...

Which Claudio Arrau do you like best: The young virtuoso? The elder statesman of the recording studio, whose grave, sometimes ponderous persona obliterated his younger self? Or the mature master who ...

Like so much of Beethoven’s late music, the last three piano sonatas are dense, complex and without parallel in the history of the keyboard. The challenges may be forbidding but the rewards are huge.