Glenn Gould and Beethoven's Tempest Sonata

A selection of clips

Only Gould ever played the Tempest Sonata really well and made it tolerable, no one else. Anyone else made it intolerable to me. It is, of course, very ponderous, the Tempest Sonata, Reger said, like a lot of Beethoven's work.

Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters: A Comedy

Translated by Ewald Osers

Glenn Gould plays Beethoven's Tempest Sonata

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata Op. 31 N.2 - I. Largo, Allegro
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata Op. 31 N.2 - II. Adagio
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata Op. 31 N.2 - III. Allegretto