Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...

There is an almost 'orchestral' texture to much of the piano writing ... followed by a brief coda - there is no attempt at development as such. The Sonata ends with a straightforward rondo ...

where he writes of ‘war…in your face, marching towards you with dead eyes and it is not pleasant.’ Sonata for Piano No. 6 Sonata for Piano No. 7 Sonata for Piano No. 8 ...