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Performances and recordings

In a single concert cycle, the whole 32 sonatas were first performed by Hans von Bülow. A number of other pianists have emulated this feat, including Artur Schnabel (the first since Bülow to play the complete cycle in concert from memory), Roger Woodward, Rudolf Buchbinder and Michael Houstoun, who has performed the full sonata cycle twice; first at the age of 40, and then 20 years later in 2013. Claudio Arrau performed the cycle several times.

The first pianist to make a complete recording was Artur Schnabel, who recorded them for the British recording label His Master's Voice (HMV) between 1932 and 1935. Other pianists to make complete recordings include Wilhelm Kempff, Claudio Arrau, Annie Fischer, Paul Lewis, Daniel Barenboim, Friedrich Gulda, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mari Kodama, Alfred Brendel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Maurizio Pollini, Richard Goode, Stephen Kovacevich, András Schiff, Igor Levit, Anton Kuerti, Eduardo del Pueyo, Konstantin Scherbakov, Boris Giltburg, Fazıl Say, Jenő Jandó and others.