Beethoven's Piano Sonatas are among some of the greatest writings for Solo Piano, and remain firm favourites in the repertoire today. Throughout the sonatas one can sense a maturing composer, whose music bridged from theelegant and precise world of Classical music, to the intensely expressive and virtuosic world of Romantic music. These pieces provide a wonderful enrichment to the repertoire of any advancing and accomplished pianists.

This remarkable edition combines the requisite Urtext scholarship with the insights of one the most revered Beethoven pianists of modern times, Claudio Arrau. Beethoven's own fingering is indicated, where extant. Otherwise, Arrau offers his own instructive and sometimes unusual solutions.