Watch pianist Kira Nickerson perform Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #17 in D Minor, “Tempest.” Watch Kira Nickerson's full performance of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #17 in D Minor, “Tempest.” Kira, a pianist ...

Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was not ...

The titles of these sonatas summon up a stormy, blood-and-thunder vision of Beethoven. That isn’t Ingrid Fliter’s way. Her approach is grandly spacious, and full of the subtle pedal effects you ...