With the Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat Major and the composer's last piano sonata, the No. 32 in C Minor, op. 111, Nicholas Angelich models the shape of the sonatas with an incredible feeling of the phrasings. In this way, he highlights all the stylistic evolution of the shape that Beethoven sought when he composed his thirty-two sonatas.

Then he performs Rachmaninov's Preludes No. 5 and 12, Op. 32 and the Études-Tableaux. We could almost forget how difficult it is to perform these "small studies", according to Nicholas Angelich's remarkable technical mastery and art of playing that seem to make the notes fly.