While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...

Louis Schwizgebel performs Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, “Les adieux," recorded in The Greene Space on Nov. 20, 2011.

This week, the world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt chooses five contrasting aspects of the piano sonatas to discuss with Donald Macleod. In 2020, Hewitt reaches the end of her survey of Beethoven’s ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Tony Lee plays Beethoven's Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a, ‘Les Adieux‘, in his semi-finals ...