Now, after having played Beethoven's piano sonatas up to this point, I feel that these three pieces from the latter half of his career are not particularly like Beethoven's works up to that time. It may be because the emotional side of Beethoven's music seems to come out more than "Waldstein" and "Passion" which are said to be his masterpieces of the middle period. It seems to me that he has reached a point where he can just barely express his own introspective thoughts in the score on the piano. Perhaps he ended the piece when he realized that there were no more new attempts.
These last three pieces were composed slowly and intensively about six years before Beethoven's death, when he was probably in his 50s. This age would have been among the very old at that time. In other words, time must have passed much more quickly than it does for us today. At any rate, at least there was something different about the enthusiasm of the "Let's do it! I feel a sense of austerity, a sense of mastery that is different from the enthusiasm of the "Let's do it! In other words, it is suitable for old people....
I am going to review the remaining three pieces, Nos. 30 and 31, and try to put them together as a single work. There are many CDs of these three pieces played by famous pianists. When I listen to them, apart from the individuality of each pianist, I feel that the recordings made when they were young and the recordings made after they aged are very different. I think I am not the only one who feels the same feeling of "that's the way it is.Well, let's see what happens...The following is a list of the most common problems with the "C" in the "C" column.