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 fourth volume of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas series, presents three sonatas written in 1800 and 1801, including the famous Funeral March of Op. 26. 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.