"BEETHOVEN: 'Moonlight' Sonata (i)" genre: Romantic
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	Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27/2 (1801): Adagio sostenuto. Whether or not Rellstab's poetic comparison of this movement with a moonlit night on the Vierwaldstätter Sea can be justified, I have never managed to relate the inwardness of the Adagio with moonlight shining on a sea. The first movement is most certainly a nocturne; however, the darkness of this night is not for a moment brightened by a mild, soft moonlight! Heavy, gloomy is this movement, grief-stricken and – if an image be permitted – reminds one of the music accompanying a funeral procession.
	MP3.com CD: Beethoven: Sonatas Vol. 5 - buy it! MP3.com CD: Favorite Beethoven Sonatas - buy it! Credits: PAUL BADURA-SKODA, piano. Recorded June 1969 in Palais Schönburg, Vienna, Austria. Recording engineer: Heinz Jansen. Program notes by Paul Badura-Skoda. English translation by Albert Frantz (mp3.com/albertfrantz). All rights reserved worldwide.

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