At first reluctant to make recordings, by the 1930s the great pianist Artur Schnabel fully accepted the new technology. His recordings of Beethoven’s piano music include all the numbered sonatas, originally issued on subscription by the Beethoven Sonata Society. This, the third volume of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas series, presents one of the best known of the sonatas, the so-called, “Pathétique”, with the less complex pair that make up Opus 14. Schnabel’s legendary performances remain stylistically in tune with the late eighteenth century while at the same time looking forward to the romanticism and self-expression of the nineteenth century, a testimony to the originality and profound musicality of his interpretations.