The second sonata is on a much larger scale than the first, and has three movements which develop in intensity, reaching a climax in the last movement which is a passacaglia. It is a stormy work, in the sense that it openspeacefully and closes in a similar manner, with a heavy shower of notes and ideas in between.

There is little hint of this in the gentle opening of the first movement, and although it follows the pattern of its previous sonatain developing a climax and releasing it again, it ...