Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas remain landmarks in music history, works that pianists in every generation have felt the desire, the inspiration, the need to take on. A new recording by Jonathan Biss is recently out, the first of nine to be released over...

But every time I hear the Haydn symphonies or Brahms duets of the world, I feel sorry that so many people who probably would love this music have no idea it exists. On the upside, it's a nice reminder that there will always be more wonderful music to...

Give us some ideas about your musical blind spots in the comments section. Figuring I wasn't alone, I asked some of my colleagues here at NPR Music to divulge their musical blind spots. And tomorrow we'll hear from pianist Jonathan Biss. Bob Boilen:...

Even without this recital, however, this was one of the most jam-packed weekends for classical concerts of the season. Patrick Rucker was favorably impressed by Jonathan Biss on Saturday night, although observing that he is neither Schnabel nor Brendel.

(This is not to be confused with Schumann’s “Kreisleriana,” a set of character pieces based on the E.T.A. Hoffmann character Johannes Kreisler, played by pianist Jonathan Biss on Saturday night.) Kreisler was represented by a few of his encore pieces,...

Nor is he a Serkin, a Brendel or a Paul Lewis. He is 100 percent Jonathan Biss, and he plays the piano like no one else. That alone would have made his recital at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue a potent antidote to the cold drizzle Saturday night. ...