Hammerklavier

The Hammerklavier is the sonata that strikes terror into many pianists, but interestingly Williams finds certain early sonatas more challenging to make sense of.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

A packed house at Katzen Arts Center seemed to concur Saturday evening, leaping to its feet following Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" sonata.

Music review: Yuliya Gorenman plays Beethoven sonatas at the Katzen Center Post 2010

TOM MANOFF: I heard Andras Schiff play Beethoven Sonata Number 29, also called the "Hammerklavier," some 15 years ago in Frankfurt and was overwhelmed by the performance.

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas 2008

TOM MANOFF: I heard Andras Schiff play Beethoven Sonata Number 29, also called the "Hammerklavier," some 15 years ago in Frankfurt and was overwhelmed by the performance.

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas 2008

(Soundbite of Beethoven's Sonata Number 29) MANOFF: Sitting back and listening to Schiff's sweeping "Hammerklavier" now puts me again into that heightened state.

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas 2008

(Soundbite of Beethoven's Sonata Number 29) MANOFF: Sitting back and listening to Schiff's sweeping "Hammerklavier" now puts me again into that heightened state.

Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas 2008

The biggest photo in the whole section shows none other than Rustem Hayroudinoff, whose Rachmaninov discs on Chandos do keep being compared favourably to Richter's - once more for this one, "equal even to the greatness of Richter," says David Nice - and whose latest, the Etudes-Tableaux Op.33 & 39, has been shortlisted alongside Mitsuko Uchida's Beethoven 'Hammerklavier' and Steven Isserlis's Bach Cello Suites.

Archive 2007-12-01 Jessica 2007

The biggest photo in the whole section shows none other than Rustem Hayroudinoff, whose Rachmaninov discs on Chandos do keep being compared favourably to Richter's - once more for this one, "equal even to the greatness of Richter," says David Nice - and whose latest, the Etudes-Tableaux Op.33 & 39, has been shortlisted alongside Mitsuko Uchida's Beethoven 'Hammerklavier' and Steven Isserlis's Bach Cello Suites.

BBC Music Magazine Award shortlists! Jessica 2007

Recalling that it had taken him eight years to learn Beethoven's daunting "Hammerklavier" Sonata, he said, "This started a little less than five years ago now, and we already have some market traction."

NYT > Home Page 2010

The "Hammerklavier" is a great physical challenge.

California Chronicle 2009