Pianist Garrick Ohlsson packs Disney Hall for a thrilling, sometimes punishing, performance

On Sunday evening, pianist Garrick Ohlsson performed an all-Beethoven recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring four of his popular "name" sonatas: the "Pathétique," "Appassionata," "Waldstein" and "Moonlight."

These early and middle sonatas show Beethoven in his revolutionary, heaven-storming...