Wilde Plays Beethoven

Three sonatas outlining a progression from the despair of No 17 in D minor, Op 31 No 2 - written at the same time as the start of the famous 'Heiligenstadt Testament', when Beethoven's realization that his deafness was complete and permanent led him to contemplate suicide - via his courageous fight back, brilliantly expressed in the irrepressible optimism of the 'Wildstein', Op 53, towards the lofty spiritual aspirations of No 31 in a flat, Op 110.