Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

Beethoven composed his Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1800, and it was first performed three years later, on 5 April 1803. The most soulful of all Beethoven’s music is arguably found in his piano concertos.

The third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is one of classical music's most thrilling creations - and here's why we reckon you should be listening to it as the sun rises. With Aromatherapy ...

Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity As cellist of the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul Watkins has ...