Gould's recording of this is one of the few that seem *almost fast
enough* to me in the first movement. The thing is, after all,
marked in cut-C meter. Not the dawdling C (or 4/4) that it gets
dragged out to, by so many others. Furthermore, the harmonic rhythm
of the piece is so slow that it too (along with the cut-C meter)
begs for a faster and more flowing tempo.
As for "moonlight", it wasn't Beethoven's own title for it
anyway. Why should the piece have anything to do with moonlight?
Brad Lehman
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