Seasoned collectors will readily warm to the beautifully recorded piano even if the brass section ... of the longer of the two cadenzas for the first movement). But. While the Haydnesque qualities of ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...