Beethoven struggled to come to terms with his hearing loss. His disability brought about depression, but this frustration moved him to write more emotional pieces of music.

Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard performer and composer. After much success as a young composer, he moved to Vienna to be taught music by composer Joseph Haydn. This did not work out for ...

Paul Lewis’s third and penultimate volume of his Beethoven sonata cycle once more shows him playing down all possible roughness and angularity in favour of a richly humane and predominantly lyrical ...