[2] The first person to play them all in a single concert cycle was Hans von Bülow; the first complete recording is Artur Schnabel's for the label His Master's Voice.
His experimentation in modifications to the common sonata form of Haydn and Mozart became more daring, as did the depth of expression.
Yet again, his music found a new path, often incorporating fugal technique and displaying radical departure from conventional sonata form.
[5] 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,[6] 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.
[9][10][11] Other pianists to make complete recordings include Wilhelm Kempff, Claudio Arrau,[12] 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 [es], Konstantin Scherbakov, Boris Giltburg, Fazıl Say, Jenő Jandó, Rudolf Buchbinder and others.