What are your favorite classical (period) piano sonatas?

[PerfectWagnerite]

A favorite Beethoven moment?

http://www.youtube.com/v/GazlqD4mLvw

Actually that is not that far from the truth. Beethoven used a cadence that long to conclude his Eroica didn't he?

[Haffner]

Mozart La Sonata Facile e Rondo Alla Turca
Beethoven opus 110 and Hammerklavier

[adamdavid80]

Rubinstein's performance of the final Schubert sonata is lovely. 


And it may be fairly "simple" but it really does take a great feel to bring out Mozart's k330 sonata.

[B_cereus]

I also nominate Mozart's F major piano sonata, k533/494, as a late masterpiece 

[Jay F]

Schubert 960 & Wanderer.

Liszt's Valle d'Obermann. I don't know if it's "classical period," or sonata-esque enough for your needs, but it is one movement.

Beethoven's op. 31 (sonatas 16, 17, 18). I love the second movement of number 16.

[bwv 1080]

K570, K333, Waldstein, op 101, Hammerklavier

[anasazi]

I think it is the Beethoven D major sonata "Pastorale" that I really like the most. I don't have a recording to recommend.  I have been disappointed by the Mozart sonatas.  They mostly disprove that Amadeus was a master.  Beethoven however (also Haydn) was a master of form.  He knew when to stop.  Wolfie seems to go on and on sometimes.  I realize the Mozart sonatas were from when he was younger.  Even more than Beethoven, the Schubert sonatas, especially D960, is a favorite. Schubert, is maybe the most underestemated composer of sonatas.