Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...

The 32 piano sonatas that Beethoven composed between 1799 and 1824, including some of his most recognized works like the "Moonlight" and "Appassionata" sonatas, are often considered among the German ...

Few musicians in the world are as intimately familiar with Beethoven's piano sonatas as Daniel Barenboim, who has been exploring these works since the earliest days of his career - a musical novel in ...

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly filmed ...

Most of us seem to have spent much of lockdown earlier this year failing to get anywhere with optimistic to-do lists. But Daniel Barenboim isn’t, of course, most people, so it should come as no ...

The 32 Beethoven piano sonatas are an adventuresome, vastly varied, pathbreaking body of works. For the composer they were a proving ground, a kiln of musical ideas, a means of stretching his genius.