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Old May 17 2008, 10:58 AM
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Considering that final movement is marked "allegro", I think the Gould recording is MUCH too slow. Had it been an inner movement of the sonata, or marked "allegro non troppo" or "andantino", I might have agreed with the tempo.

Remember that this is Beethoven, not Mozart.
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