The soloist’s crown is certainly usurped at the end of the first movement and I missed the cushioned “plumf” of the basses in the Adagio, so well captured by the Philharmonia under Leopold Ludwig ...

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 ...

This installment of the Classic Archive series captures renowned American pianist Murray Perahia at one with his art form, interpreting the works of Ludwig van Beethoven with unrivaled virtuosity ...