SEVERAL weeks ago, I earmarked this slot for some consideration of a single piece of music, and not an epic. The piece in mind is a short Beethoven Piano Sonata: not one of the giants or big name ...

This is Steven Osborne’s 25th recording for Hyperion and what a marker it is. The Scottish pianist plays with an authority built on intelligent, very human musicianship: his accounts of these three ...

If you’ve heard that Beethoven’s Mass in C lacks the passion of later compositions, seize this recording from musicians who think differently. Hickox avoids making the work’s opening sound like the ...

Before they were soldiers, they were family. Before they were legends, they were heroes. Before there was a nation, there was a fight for freedom.