Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev)

The Eighth is the most expansive of Prokofiev’s sonatas; the first move ment in particular unfolds in an unhurried fashion. The composer initially intended the sonata to consist of four movements, not three.

— Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev)

I studied the sonata from the manuscript, and at that time I frequently visited S[ergei] S[ergeyevich] at home.... I played for him the work I had just learned very tentatively. S. S., while checking certain passages, made corrections in the score. Sometimes he would sit at the keyboard and, without playing every note, indicate what he would like to hear from the performer above all.

— Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev)