Late piano sonatas (Beethoven)

Recordings#

Complete cycle: *Claudio Arrau (Philips Classics) *Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca Classics) *Wilhelm Backhaus (Decca Classics) *Daniel Barenboim (3 recordings: 2 on Deutsche Grammophon, 1 on EMI Classics) *Alfred Brendel (3 recordings: 2 on Philips Classics, reissued on Decca Classics; 1 earlier set on Vox, reissued by Brilliant Classics) *Annie Fischer (Hungaroton) *Claude Frank (Music and Arts) *Walter Gieseking *Seonuk Gim (Accentus Music) *Richard Goode (Nonesuch) *Glenn Gould (30—32 on Columbia Masterworks (1956); posthumous releases of 28 on CBC Records from a radio broadcast, and 29 on Sony Classical) *Friedrich Gulda (3 recordings: 1 on Decca Classics; 1 on Amadeo Records, reissued on Brilliant Classics and Decca Classics; and one on Orfeo, first released in 2010) *Éric Heidsieck (EMI Classics) *Wilhelm Kempff (2 recordings on Deutsche Grammophon) *Stephen Kovacevich (EMI Classics) *Christian Leotta (ATMA Classique) *Igor Levit (Sony Classics) *John Lill (Resonance Records) *HJ Lim (EMI Classics) *Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi) *Yves Nat (EMI Classics) *Kun-Woo Paik (Decca Classics) *Maurizio Pollini (Deutsche Grammophon) *Sviatoslav Richter (various performances of each sonata on varying labels) *Bernard Roberts (Nimbus) *Charles Rosen (CBS, reissued on CD Sony Classics) *András Schiff (ECM Records) *Artur Schnabel (EMI Classics) *Peter Serkin (Musical Concepts) *Rudolf Serkin (Sony Classical) *Solomon (EMI Classics) *Mitsuko Uchida (Philips Classics) Partial cycle (3 or more): *Christoph Eschenbach (Nos. 29–32 on EMI Classics) *Emil Gilels (Nos. 28–31 on Deutsche Grammophon) Of the five sonatas, the last one (in C minor) is the most often recorded, as heard in interpretations by Julius Katchen, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Mikhail Pletnev, Ivo Pogorelić, and Anatol Ugorski.

See also#

• Piano sonatas (Beethoven)
• Diabelli Variations, another piano work composed during Beethoven’s late period
• Bagatelles Op. 119 & Op. 126
• Schubert’s last sonatas