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 ...
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 ...