pandora413 wrote:

It's all 3 movements of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in C sharp minor. The two Sonatas of Op. 27, in E flat major and C sharp minor, and the Sonata in D major, Op. 28, all belong to the year 1801. They are wonderful successes. Each of those in Op. 27 is designated as Sonata quasi una Fantasia, and designed to be played without a break between the movements. The order of the movements is dictated by their poetic content; they have the glamour that hangs over a magnificent extemporization, yet their aesthetic structure is masterly. The name Moonlight, by which the C sharp minor is known, was not of Beethovens bestowing, but it is at least a token of the enchantment cast by the music. The first movement, adagio, with its mist of slow, moving triplets and its melody slowly rising from monotone on a prevalent rhythmic figure, is as impressionistic as anything in Debussy. The figure as used by Beethoven is full of mystery.

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