Ludwig van Beethoven used the keyboard as his “personal laboratory, ” a place to experiment with the lyricism and power that fed his monumental works for orchestra.
Starting 7:30 tonight in Mills Hall, UW-Madison associate professor of piano Christopher Taylor begins a two-month, marathon performance of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. In a feat rarely achieved, Taylor — whose reputation as a brilliant performer reaches from some of New York ‘s premier concert halls to West Coast academia — will play the sonatas from memory in a 10-concert series.