Piano Sonatas nos. 14, 21, 23

Album by Ludwig van Beethoven & Vladimir Horowitz

Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 21 and 23 are solo piano works by Ludwig van Beethoven composed and published in the early 1800s (approximately 1801–1806). Stylistically they mark Beethoven's move from Classical-era models towards a more dramatic, technically demanding and formally expanded idiom associated with his middle-period output, and they played a formative role in the development of the nineteenth-century piano repertoire.

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  1. 1.
    Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight”: I. Adagio sostenuto
    5:56
  2. 2.
    Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight”: II. Allegretto
    2:31
  3. 3.
    Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight”: III. Presto agitato
    7:28
  4. 4.
    Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major, op. 53 “Waldstein”: I. Allegro con brio
    10:31
  5. 5.
    Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major, op. 53 “Waldstein”: II. Introduzione
    3:49
  6. 6.
    Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major, op. 53 “Waldstein”: III. Rondo
    9:41
  7. 7.
    Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 “Appassionata”: I. Allegro assai
    9:38
  8. 8.
    Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 “Appassionata”: II. Andante con moto
    5:55
  9. 9.
    Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 “Appassionata”: III. Allegro, ma non troppo
    8:06
  10. 10.
    Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor, op. 13 “Pathétique”: I. Grave
    8:36
  11. 11.
    Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor, op. 13 “Pathétique”: II. Adagio cantabile
    5:26

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