{"id":72777,"date":"2020-02-12T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?post_type=ac_pitmancd&#038;p=72777"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:39:22","slug":"john-pitman-review-jonathan-biss-completes-beethoven-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/john-pitman-review-jonathan-biss-completes-beethoven-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: Jonathan Biss completes Beethoven journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of the celebrations this year of the 250<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the birth of Ludwig Van Beethoven, program director John Pitman is interviewing some of today\u2019s top artists involved in the newest recordings of his music.<\/p>\n<p>American pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanbiss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Biss<\/a> has just completed a 9-year journey exploring the piano sonatas of Ludwig Van Beethoven. In his conversation, Mr. Biss shares how each sonata revealed a different side of the composer&#8217;s character, which was definitely much more than the scowling face we often see on CD covers and books. The journey was also one of discovery for the pianist himself: Mr. Biss certainly doesn&#8217;t feel like he&#8217;s in the same place as when he started nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=2293135&amp;source=kbps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BUY NOW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of the celebrations this year of the 250th\u00a0anniversary of the birth of Ludwig Van Beethoven, program director John Pitman is interviewing some of today\u2019s top artists involved in the newest recordings of his music. American pianist Jonathan Biss has just completed a 9-year journey exploring the piano sonatas of Ludwig Van Beethoven. &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":72778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4081,4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:37:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}