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    Jorg Demus: Piano Sonata 31, op. 110

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    4. Jorg Demus: Piano Sonata 31, op. 110

    How about this for authenticity - Jorg Demus recorded this piano sonata on Beethoven's actual piano! Obviously, being a couple of hundred years old the tone is a little more honky-tonk than concert hall, but Demus' fantastic interpretation brings out the colours and lets us hear it as it would've sounded to the composer himself.

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