Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume 1. Sonatas Op.2, Op. 7, Op. 10

Beethoven's piano sonatas are considered as fundamental to the repertory as Bach's Well-tempered Clavier, often referred to as the "New and Old Testament" in keyboard music respectively. The complete cycle presents enormous width of musical expression and correspondingly, interpretative challenges, which have kept pianists busy since they were first published, and so justly.