Sonatas 1

Daniel Heide writes: "The home of my mother - a pianist and singer herself - was where I first came in contact with Beethoven's piano sonatas. Several of her piano students from Weimar Conservatory often came to take lessons or visit us in our apartment. Curiously, instead of popular sonatas such as the Pathétique or the Appassionata, we tended to hear other ones: I still vividly recall Sonata...