Lise Davidsen, one of opera’s biggest names, is preparing to leave the stage for a few months to give birth and spend time ...

And then the recorded notes of an orchestra playing Beethoven began to filter out of the amped-up sound system. Simply as a moment of drama, it was effective. Beethoven’s majestic but tender ...

Thanks to recording engineer Robert Zeichner, IPR listeners can hear a 1971 recording of cellist Bernard Greenhouse and pianist Menahem Pressler.

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...