Jonathan Biss: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Tom Huizenga, December 14, 2020 The pandemic has sidelined many big Beethoven birthday plans. Jonathan Biss was slated to play concerts around the globe in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer s birth. Instead, he s home in Philadelphia. So it s no surprise that for this allBeethoven Tiny Desk concert, Biss chose music that explores the composer s own isolation, brought on by deafness and an uncompromising is uniquely qualified for the task at hand. The 40yearold pianist has recorded all 32 of Beethoven s freewheeling sonatas, performed them worldwide and has taught an online course in the music.