Today, I present to everyone the allegretto movement of Beethoven's "Tempest" sonata. I suppose it is probably named thus because of the restless movement of the 6/8 time signature as it is used in this final part - as I listen, I almost imagine myself on a ship in a hurricane-rocked ocean, tipped this way and that. But perhaps my imagination is just strange. In any case, at the keyboard is my favorite pianist, Glenn Gould, who is very Baroque-oriented, very Canadian, very low-seated over the piano, very eccentric on occasion, and very awesome. I think Beethoven would have approved of how he interpreted the movement, but you can watch and see if you agree with me yourself:
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