Conversation: Pianist Jonathan Biss

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 nine years, that will eventually include the entire cycle. Biss has also written a long essay about the project, titled “Beethoven’s Shadow,” which was released in Amazon’s Kindle Singles series.

I spoke to Biss last week:

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