Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata are available below ... You can also read a general introduction to Beethoven's piano sonatas.

But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them. The sonatas make up a wonderfully diverse yet utterly cogent and self-contained body of work.

In matters of musical diction, lucidity matters. Not long before the sonata’s end, Beethoven introduces a three-part fugato, a lyric inspiration of rare beauty, limpid in D. In the context of this ...

Comprehensive programme notes on each Sonata are available below ... You can also read a general introduction to Beethoven's piano sonatas.