When I heard this piece for the first time, I thought the “jazz” variation was added by the performer. Now I realise Beethoven actually composed it!

If Beethoven had lived up to 100 years, he’d have composed 22nd century music.

Beethoven is without a doubt the keystone between the Classical and Romantic eras. This piece is many many years ahead of its time however.

Its amazing how Beethoven was able to come up with this "Jazz Feel" 100s of years before it became what it is... just simply marvelous!

16:47 Ludwig van Gershwin

amazing how Beethoven took leap from classical to boogie woogie and after that naturally landed in minimalism and impressionism

29:29 a simple, yet so beautiful C major chord. The point where everything started, now marks the finale of a titan's era.

These sonatas age well, like fine wine. When I first listened to them, they were good, now they are something else.

Pogorelich did a great job 6:12 this part is extraordinary

The first movement has a sort of sinister, sneaky sound...and I LOVE it.

Wow... Just when I thought I heard all of Beethoven something else comes up and continues to amaze me..

21:05 shaking chills

God, do I wish Beethoven lived just a few more years but God am I grateful for everything he was able to create in his short time here.

The first time I listened to this I was exhausted from work, and I fell asleep halfway through, when I woke up it was over, and honest-to-god I thought I'd dreamt up that Second Movement haha... but it's real! It's real I tell you!

For me this is the most sublime piece of music written by Beethoven or any other composer. It is like a mini summary of Beethoven's entire musical journey, from the depths of human despair, struggle against the odds, joyous celebration, glimpsing something beyond humanity, touching the divine, coming back down to humanity, finding peace and reconciliation with ones place in the universe, and giving thanks for life. It lasts a mere half hour and contains the most profound expressions of every emotion Beethoven ever captured. And it sends shivers down my spine and makes me cry (the joyful kind of tears, not the sentimental ones) everytime I hear it. The most sacred experience an atheist like myself can have. Still the best piece written for piano all these years later.

29:29 the final C chord expresses the end of all his life, it contain all the wonderful work he has done in his life

16:47 Gershwin? Heinrich Neuhaus (teacher of Gilels and Richter) in his book “The art of piano playing” explains many parallels and prophesies of Beethovens texture, for instance the 3rd movement of Hammerklavier reflects Chopin etc...

his 1st sonata starts with a C, and his last sonata ends with a C major chord, how beautiful

The second movement is amazing under Pogolerich's hands. His eccentric touch is perfect for such a modern and extravagant composition.

There have been some special people on this planet (Beethoven being one of them), and a lot of this sonata makes me shake my head at his sheer genius. The beginning is frenetic and pissed off, the ragtime comes out of nowhere, and the ending is beautiful, ethereal, and song like.

16:47 whoa THIS is Beethoven?!?!?

21:08 it remind to me the scherzo of Beethoven's 9th symphony

People may not be aware that Pogorelić was only 24 years old when this recording was made. Certainly a striking fact, it gets one thinking... How often do we come across a mature and masterful performance such as this one with its executor who slammed the school door behind him just a minute ago?

This is deep

In my opinion this is alongside the 'Große Fuge' Beethoven's most remarkable and visionary work. Hard to believe that something like it was composed in the early 19th century.

The second movement sound like you are staring into the depths of Beethoven’s soul. It is as if you are traveling to another dimension.

16:47 Swing it, Luddy, you hepcat

This has to be my favorite Beethoven sonata, even though I love him mainly for the darker, more tragic pieces. It's so mysterious and incredibly exciting. There's always a part you can look forward to.

Shortly after the 111-record came out in the middle eighties we, my then girl friend + 20 friends, on the occasion of my girlfriends birthday, went to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to hear Ivo P. playing this Beethoven sonata live. It was of course amazing. But when we returned home to continue the party an enormous discussion broke out about Ivo's execution of the work. And the group did not consist of classical scholars at all, Beatles, Stones and Van Morisson were mixed in too. Pogorelic (sic!) had opened a can of worms, which was so wonderful ... Ivo makes the composition very strong, in timing and melody, to me extremely moving. And I knew the sonata by other performers ..., older piano lions, whose names do not pop up immediately although Wilhelm Kempff comes to mind, but I could be mistaken ... Interpretation of classical works of art is a very interesting subject, both by conductors and instrumentalists. Not only because of interpreters and their development, but also because we as people and listeners change, and the times they are changing as well :-). Actually, my tears always start flowing just after the boogie-woogie part because it's there that Beethoven really gets in the thinnest of airs, melodically and emotionally that, as far as I know, has not been reached by any other composer. Hugs to all.

Wow! At 21.56 (the point that elicited Brendel's comment) Beethoven threatens to dive into the infamous popular music progression 1-6-2-5-1 but stops after the 6 chord. He resists going into the lush minor seventh, or 2 chord. Virtually half of all popular songs ever written use the 1-6--2-5-1 as their basic chord progression. We used to refer to it as the "heart and soul" progression after the pop song of the same name. As a classical music buff of 65 years I always wondered why classical composers seem to eschew the 1-6-2-5-1, seeing as how it has become so ubiquitous in pop music today. In the 32nd Sonata Beethoven gave us what must have been the first use of the boogie boogie syncopation in classical music, but stopped short of consummating it with the 1-6-2-5-1 progression to round out his foreshadowing of 20th Century pop music. Amazing.

One of the better recordings by Pogorelich. In comparison, listen to the many other pianists' interpretations available of this great work, but here Pogorelich stands out. Thank you for the upload.

The Arietta is just beautiful. Another proof of how lyrical Beethoven can get.

After the last chord, one can smoothly replay the first sonata. Wonderful cycle.

17:50 onwards is pure Beethoven! It’s viscerally emotional, has a “minor” feel and is full of Sforzandi

The entire trill section of the second movement is amazing, but the trills at 22:58 are especially beautiful!!

first chords of 1st movement sounds so stunning.

According to historian Günter Schnitzelstein, when performing the section at 16:47, Beethoven would back-kick the piano stool away and shout “ jetzt schlag zu” (now hit it) and proceed to play standing up while simultaneous hammering the keys with his bare foot.

This is Beethoven's most profound sonata.

16:47 *I'M JAZZIN' IT UP DADDYO'*

16:47 starts a kind of ragtime! very modern!

The Arietta is a very transcendental and mystical piece.

This is one of my favorite of all Beethoven's Sonata's! Love it forever!!!

My favorite Beethoven sonata

I'm currently waiting for my online chemistry test to start so I decided to play this on my computer while I waited and oh my god the beginning fits to how I feel right now so well.

Pogorelich, the best performance

I like Pogo's relaxed tempo for the first movement. I think that's the slowest I've heard it performed, but it works because of the intensity he brings to every note.

I listened to it after the professor gave it to me as an assignment and I have been listening to it every single day since then. I love such powerful and poignant songs. It's great play

This one, this sonata is so simple, yet so complex. Beautiful

Pogorelich is known for his often eccentric interpretations, but his performance of this great sonata is virtual perfection. I particularly like the tempo he uses for the first movement. So many pianists - even some of the great ones - take this far too fast. Pogorelich allows us to hear every detail of the semiquaver motifs. Personally, I love Pogorelich's eccentricities, and rate his Gaspard de la Nuit as one of the best on record. He was, as is well known, eliminated from the 1980 Chopin competition by a majority of he judges, prompting the renowned Martha Argerich to leave the judging panel in protest. Incidentally, who knows of a single recording of the winner of that competition, the Vietnamese Dong Thai Son? So much for some piano competition judges! I bet Ashish can dig one out!!

Beethoven was the King of the piano Sonatas and it's very nice to see them with the Sheet Music Most know the Famous Moonlight Sonata but he also composed 31 other outstanding Piano Sonatas thanks for posting Beethoven was always a huge influence on me and a zillion others the Beautiful Melodies and advanced harmonies made Beethoven as famous as any Rock Star today in Europe during his lifetime and ever since Thanks So very much for posting these Gems PJ GRAND

The first movement is filled with mature feelings but the second movement sounds so child-like and innocent its absolutely beautiful i love this piece

Beethoven lasts sonatas and me. Forty years of love.

Is this truly Beethoven? I see a mixture here. Heaviness: Rachmaninoff Fugue-like parts: Bach Some m.g. semiquaver runs: Mozart Swing: Gershwin Loudness: Scriabin (e.g. sonata in e flat minor) Pureness: Burgmuller (like La Candour) Passion: Brahms (like Rhapsody in g minor) Note: Bach's Praeludium in c minor, well tempered clavier book 1 closely matches the Baroque-ish semiquaver run.

Perfectly played.

I was an accidental fan of Ivo. My family hailed from Yugoslavia and whenever we flew relatives to the US for a visit, I'd get a record of one of his albums. Loved growing up listening to his recordings (especially Tchaikovski #1), as I was classically trained from a very young age. I played Opus 111 at my last recital a few years ago and always judge pianists on their interpretation of this sonata and I must say Pogorelich didn't disappoint. This was one brilliant yet fresh take on this masterpiece. I will find a copy of this CD and add it to my collection. Love this guy.

Listened to it again. Wonderful performance.

One time, my music playlist had this sonata in it, and then right afterwards, Bach's WTC book 1, and it felt like the ending of the sonata just fit so well with the beginning of the WTC.. I felt like I had come full circle

The fact that the last four Sonatas written by this man, all of which must be heard many, many times (and by many pianists) to be fully appreciated, were written when he was profoundly deaf says so much about his undoubted genius. Some may award that description to Mozart, but I will always disagree. The depth of emotion that Beethoven brought to his music, in so many different styles, has not, in my opinion, been bettered yet. He is destined to remain the greatest composer ever. Newcomers to Beethoven would do well, even if they are not pianists, to buy the three volumes of the Sonata scores and read them as they listen to the music. This brings greater depth of understanding and love for the music.

This is the greatest piece, of the greatest set of pieces, by the greatest composer of piano music.

I was deeply concentrated, studying for a final.. then the second movement began and before I knew it I was dancing in front of my desk^^

A very experimental sounding sonata with a lot of interesting sounds to linger on while listening or playing, crazy rhythms and time signatures. This might as well be a sonata in all keys rather than just C minor.

God, I love this sonata. I really do.

Thank you. Very soothing in these trying times. Have a blessed day. 🙏

This performance is so clear!

I always start to laugh at 16:47 :D

Beethoven late works never fail to impress.... and all are from a deaf man. Truely incredible.

Now I know 'beethoven was ahead of his time' is not just a saying you have to say cause he's one of the great and it's something you kind of have to say about them but... He really dropped a ragtime in the middle of the sonata !!! It's like a piece of the future, a premonitory revelation that gets a hold of him for a short time

Thank you so much. An exquisite rendering. I loved it.

My favorite moment in the whole sonata is the return of the opening theme in Var. 5 of the Arietta, and Pogo *nails* it, the way he sings out the theme against the gently flowing arpeggios beneath it. It's like the first rays of the rising sun.

The opening page of the second movement sounds like Minecraft ambient music. Edit: 23:01 is my favorite part, it sounds like rain in the forest.

That turbulent and chaotic first movement is very terrestrial in nature. It evokes all the struggles on this earth, albeit with occasional rays of light. The second movement is transcendent and luminous.

My favorite moment begins at 24:51 :”-)

27:41 Extremely magical and luminous. It reminds me of the Walt Disney Pictures logo on the movies. Seriously!

6:12 is this a fugato ? Sounds awesome!

The voicings in this performance are fantastic!

That's a lot of a compliment because I read many more than one book that Chopin did not like Beethove's music! And Brendel's comment is right to the point: the end of this Sonata is simply divine!

BEE!!!! Do it brother!! Your last Sonate is brilliant and set forth a future! I hope I can meet you in Heaven (if there is a place) and hear you play this for all those beautiful music lovers out there!

A deaf man predicted rag time (16:47)

So glad for Beethoven. Bravo to the performer.

久しぶりに聴いて最後涙が出ました。終わってまだ音が鳴っている様な妙な感覚に襲われ鳥肌ががたちました。

Napoleon was taking a bow to Greatest of all ...

So intense and romantic...

Greatest piece of music in world history and best performance of it

The best version of opus 111 I ever heard. Awesome!

The holy of holies- Beethoven's last piano sonata.

🙏🙏 One wants to sit in silence for an hour after listening to this.

Omg that whole ending trill is magestic

let me say that this piece brings up the genius of beethoven, because it's not only one of the best piece ever written but beethoven discouvered two musical genres, he discouvered the "romântique" music and then in this piece he already show some signs of jazz. I don't think that his genius can be compared to something or someone else, not even mozart... LOVE BEETHOVEN

Man I love your channel!

This sonata is one reason God invented tears! Well played and, as previously noted, worth listening to performed by many pianists.

every day I love more Ivo Pogorelich

23:01 my hand's cramping up just from looking at these synchronized trills 😳

16:47 He was so ahead of his time

It's so WEIRD... for a composer to accidentally write jazz, but not be living anywhere near the context of jazz... really proves that music can come from a deeper place than just our immediate influences and surroundings.

Got to love how Mr. Pogorelich literally swung that syncopated part hehe.

This is awesome!

l часть Вступление 0:01 ГП 1:56 Св.п 2:32 ПП 2:55 ЗП 3:30 динамическая реприза 8:45 ll часть 9:53 1 вариация 15:15 2 вариация 16:47 3 вариация 18:51 4 вариация 22:30 5 вариация ?24:43? кода 27:31

I knew I could rely on these clever comments to help me find THE JAZZY PART ( 16:47 - I've now made a clever comment 🌛 )

there is jazz in this unbelievable!!

Variation 4 is so beautiful