Late piano sonatas (Beethoven)
The late piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven usually refer to the last five piano sonatas the composer composed during his late period.
Some compilations may include Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 as one of Beethoven's late piano sonatas.Recordings
Complete cycle:
- Charles Rosen
- Paul Lewis
- Claudio Arrau
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Wilhelm Backhaus
- Daniel Barenboim
- Alfred Brendel
- Annie Fischer
- Claude Frank
- Walter Gieseking
- Richard Goode
- Glenn Gould
- *Gould's performances of Nos. 30-32 were previously released on Columbia Masterworks
- Friedrich Gulda
- Éric Heidsieck
- Wilhelm Kempff
- Stephen Kovacevich
- Yves Nat
- Maurizio Pollini
- Sviatoslav Richter
- Bernard Roberts
- András Schiff
- Peter Serkin
- Rudolf Serkin
- Artur Schnabel
- Solomon
- Mitsuko Uchida
- Igor Levit
Partial cycle :
- Christoph Eschenbach
- Emil Gilels
Of the five sonatas, the last one is the most often recorded, as heard in interpretations by Julius Katchen, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Mikhail Pletnev, Ivo Pogorelich, and Anatol Ugorski.