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piano sonata

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A piano sonata is a multi-movement classical composition written for solo piano, typically following a structured form that balances technical virtuosity with emotional expression. This sophisticated art form emerged during the Classical period and became a cornerstone of piano literature, showcasing the instrument's full range and the composer's architectural vision. The genre demands both intellectual engagement and interpretive nuance from performers, making it central to classical piano repertoire across centuries.

100 chronological releases

Place	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
35	1954	Ludwig van Beethoven	Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 5-7	classical piano piano sonata
84	1959	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	The Complete Piano Sonatas	classical piano sonata
87	1964	Various	100 Best Relaxing Classics	classical classical piano piano piano sonata	classical piano # 14
56	1964	Vlado Perlemuter	Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 / Barcarolle	classical piano piano sonata
96	1966	Ludwig van Beethoven	Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata	classical piano # 75
89	1967	Ludwig van Beethoven	Virtual Box Set - Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata
92	1969	Various	50 Piano Classics	classical classical piano piano piano sonata	classical piano # 37
94	1969	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata
69	1972	Various Artists	100 Classical Hits	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
5	1974	Emil Gilels	Beethoven Giles Edition Volume 5	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
17	1974	Alfred Brendel	Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos.8,14,23 & 26
97	1977	Claudio Arrau	Piano Vol. 2	classical piano piano sonata sonata	sonata # 100
11	1978-08	John O'Conor	Schubert: Moments Musicaux & A Major Sonata	classical piano piano sonata
2	1979	Mary Louise Boehm	Three American Romantics	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
7	1979	Antonin Kubalek	Paderewski	classical piano piano sonata
18	1981	Bohuslav Martinů	Sonata No.1 for piano, Études and Polkas Book I-III, Sonata No.1 for flute and piano (Radoslav Kvapil, Gunilla von Bahr, Kerstin Hindart)		classical piano # 16 sonata # 57 czech classical # 64 classical composer # 73
90	1981	Ivo Pogorelich	Scarlatti, D.: Sonatas		classical piano # 34
48	1981	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Piano Sonata Selection	piano
98	1984	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: The Piano Sonatas	classical piano sonata
58	1985	Domenico Scarlatti	Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas	baroque classical piano piano sonata
44	1985	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart, W.A.: The Piano Sonatas; Piano Music For 4 Hands
62	1988	Albinoni Orchestra	Albinoni / Vivaldi / Pachelbel / Walter Rinaldi / Mozart / Mendelssohn / Wagner: Adagio, Air on the G String, Paris Concerto, Guitar Concerto, Canon in D, Orchestral, Piano and Organ Works		potpourri # 67
6	1988	Sergei Edelmann	Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor - Shubert: Fantasia ''Wanderer''	classical piano piano sonata
28	1988	Sviatoslav Richter	Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4, 8 & 16
26	1989	András Schiff	Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata
36	1989	Franz Schubert	Schubert: Piano Sonatas (Complete)	classical piano piano sonata
52	1989	Julia Cload	Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 4	classical piano piano sonata
68	1989	Mikhail Pletnev	Mozart: Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata
37	1990	Various	Essential Piano	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
50	1992	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13	classical piano piano sonata
100	1992	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Piano Works	classical piano piano sonata
4	1993	Karol Szymanowski	Szymanowski, K.: Piano Sonata No. 3 / Mazurkas / Masks / Metopes
99	1993	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 (Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 4, 5 and 6)
3	1994	Glenn Gould	Greatest Hits - The Classical Piano	classical piano piano sonata
38	1995	Anton Kuerti	Haydn: Six Sonates Pour Piano	classical piano piano sonata
75	1996	Ludwig van Beethoven	The Complete Piano Sonatas	classical piano sonata
33	1996	Michel Dalberto	Schubert: Piano Sonatas Complete, Vol. 12
60	1997	Franz Joseph Haydn	HAYDN: Piano Sonatas Nos. 36-41	classical
72	1997	Alicia de Larrocha	Mozart: Klaviersonaten/Piano Sonatas K.283, 331, 332, 333
23	1998	Emil Gilels	Emil Gilels Legacy Vol. 6	classical piano piano sonata potpourri	potpourri # 19
31	1998	Various Artists	Best Of Beethoven	classical orchestral piano sonata sonata symphony	sonata # 24
34	1998	Emil Gilels	Emil Gilels Legacy Vol.5	classical classical piano piano piano sonata potpourri	potpourri # 31
22	1998	Franz Schubert	Schubert: Les grandes sonates pour piano	classical piano piano sonata
32	1998	Franz Schubert	Schubert: Complete Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata
74	2000	Various	50 Relaxing Classics	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
9	2001	Massimiliano Damerini	Schubert Sonaten Vol. 1	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
27	2001	Massimiliano Damerini	Schubert: Piano Works Vol. 4	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
29	2001	Anne Pellerin	Dukas: Grande sonate en mi bémol mineur, Prélude Élégiaque, La plainte au loin du faune
71	2001	Emil Gilels	Beethoven: Piano Sonatas #21, 23 & 26
82	2001	Johannes Brahms	Alexander Paley plays Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartel
93	2002-01-23	Elisabeth Leonskaja	Schubert : Piano Sonatas Nos 19 & 21	classical piano piano sonata
40	2003	Andreas Haefliger	Mozart Piano Sonatas	piano classical
10	2003	Boris Bekhterev	Pyotr Ilyich Ciajkovskij, Aleksandr Nikolaevic Skrjabin : Sonate
30	2003	Claudio Arrau, Philharmonia Orchestra, Basil Cameron	Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15; Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op. 53 "Waldstein"
78	2003	Mikhail Pletnev	Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 14 'Moonlight', 21 'Waldstein' & 23 'Appassionata'
80	2003	Vladimir Ashkenazy	Sonata in B flat major, Wandererfantasie
53	2004	Carmen Piazzini	Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas	piano classical
57	2004	Domenico Scarlatti	Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 3
15	2005	Roberto Plano	2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Preliminary Round	classical piano piano sonata
91	2005	David Fray	Fantaisie	piano piano sonata
42	2005	Piotr Anderszewski	Szymanowski: Masques, Piano Sonata No. 3 & Métopes
66	2005	Michel Dalberto	Schubert: Piano Sonatas Complete, Vol. 12 (Complete Works For Piano)
67	2005-01-28	Yevgeny Sudbin	Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 47, 53, 60
1	2006	Emil Gilels	Emil Gilels Performs Beethoven and Chopin At Helsinki Festival 1975	classical piano piano sonata
21	2006	Adam Gyorgy	Plays Bach and Mozart	classical piano piano sonata
39	2007	Paavali Jumppanen	2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Preliminary Round	classical piano piano sonata
43	2007	Various	50 Best Piano Classical Music Pieces	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
64	2007	Franz Joseph Haydn	Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
25	2010	Leon McCawley	Mozart: The Piano Sonatas	classical
70	2010	Helene Grimaud	Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 - 6 Klavierstucke, Op. 118
65	2010-12-01	Various Artists	Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 & Ballade No. 4 Op 5	classical piano piano sonata
85	2012	Daniel Barenboim	Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata sonata	sonata # 81
77	2012	Daniel Barenboim	Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata
86	2012	Glenn Gould	Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23
51	2012-10-15	Daniel-Ben Pienaar	Mozart: Piano Sonatas	classical piano piano piano sonata
45	2013	Jonathan Powell	Goldenweiser: Piano Music Volume One	classical piano piano sonata
55	2014	Claudio Arrau	Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos.8, 14 "Moonlight" & 23 "Appassionata"
54	2014-06-02	Jonathan Biss	Wigmore Hall Live - Jonathan Biss	classical piano piano sonata
81	2014-08-27	Claudio Arrau	Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos.8, 23, & 14
47	2014-08	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Piano Sonatas (5 CDs, Vol.17 of 45)
59	2014-08	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos.3, 4 & 18
76	2017-03-31	Various	50 Best Relaxing Classics	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
83	2021	Stephen Kovacevich	Beethoven: Piano Sonatas	classical piano
8	2021-05	Jan Ladislav Dussek	Piano Works of Jan Ladislav Dussek, Vol. 1
19	2021-05	Jan Ladislav Dussek	Dussek, J.L.: Piano Music, Vol. 2
12	2023	Various Artists	J'apprends le piano, avec Alexandre Tharaud
13		Felipe Sarro	Brahms - Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3	classical piano piano sonata sonata	sonata # 6
14		Daniel Pollack	Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos.2&3	classical piano piano sonata sonata	sonata # 10
20		Constance Keene	Carl Maria Von Weber: Complete Sonatas	classical piano piano sonata sonata	sonata # 11
24		Margery McDuffie Whatley	Plays Bach, Haydn, Brahms and Ravel		sonata # 15
46		Richard Pohl	Beethoven: Sonata in C sharp Minor op 27 no 2 "Moonlight"	classical classical piano concert piano piano sonata sonata	sonata # 36
49		Marzia Gaggioli	Classica N.14	baroque classical composer composer italian italian baroque italy piano piano solo piano sonata sonata symphony	sonata # 44 classical composer # 70 italian baroque # 80
73		John Baggaley	Memories of the Past	classical piano solo	piano solo # 41
88		John Baggaley	Triumph	classical classical piano piano piano solo piano sonata	classical piano # 22 piano solo # 44
16		Herbert Waltl	Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 in F Major Op.57 "Appassionata"	classical piano piano sonata
61		Rui Shi	2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Preliminary Round	classical classical piano piano piano sonata
95		Herbert Waltl	Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.17 in D Minor Op.31/2 "The Tempest"	classical piano piano sonata
		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart	classical
		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Mozart: Piano Sonatas	classical piano
41		Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli	Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Piano Recital
63		Felipe Sarro	Classical Piano Sonatas - Mozart, Haydn, Clementi
79		Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis	Ciurlionis: Piano Music, Vol. 1

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piano sonata

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