When Daniel Barenboim begins his cycle of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas Wednesday night in Orchestra Hall, the event will have old-timers searching their memories for the last time they heard any ...

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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.

In this recording, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim tackles the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas, composed ...