The 10 Most Emotionally Draining Piano Works

Here are ten of the most intensely expressive, emotionally draining pieces ever conceived for the piano (or, in one case, the clavichord). I really like this list--it's range and variety are truly extraordinary, which doesn't mean you won't have plenty of suggestions of your own!

CPE Bach: Farewell to My Silbermann Clavichord, in a Rondo (Rondo in E minor), Wq 66
Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 Op. 111
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8
Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Alkan: Piano Sonata “The Four Ages of Man”
Haydn: Andante with Variations in F minor
Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord”
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2
Schubert Piano Sonata D. 960