Best Clementi Piano Sonata?

[swilliams002]

I'm curious what other Clementi-ites like me think is the greatest piano sonata that Clementi wrote. It seems that the obvious candidates may be:
     The 3 sonatas of Opus 40 (G Major, B Minor, D Major)
     The 2 sonatas of Opus 34 (C Major, G Minor)
     Op 33 in C Major ("Concerto without orchestra")
     Op. 50, No. 1 in A-flat Major
     Op. 26, No. 2 in F-sharp Minor
     There are a few other worthy candidates which I cannot recall at the moment since I'm tired and should have gone to bed three hours ago.
People often say that Op. 50, No. 3 in G Minor ("Didone Abandonata") is his best, but I just don't see it. Maybe I'm wrong, but it just doesn't strike me as that great of a work - quite the opposite actually. It's also interesting that Henle, in its 2 volumes selection of the sonatas, chose to include Op. 50 No. 1 over No. 3. I think either Opus 40 No. 1 in G Major or Opus 40 No. 2 in B Minor is his greatest. What do you all think?

[swilliams002]

The sheer scale of his output is impressive enough: among the piano music alone Baker's lists 106 sonatas (46 of them with violin, cello or flute), and there is also a healthy quantity of smaller pieces, many of them intended for teaching, the best-known being his collection of studies entitled Gradus ad Parnassum.

I agree. I'm only wondering what other people who are familiar with his piano sonatas think is the best. I'm doing an all-Clementi recital this Spring, and though I have already selected the sonatas I will be playing (F Major sonatina, Op. 36, No. 4; F-sharp Minor, Op. 26, No. 2; B-flat, Op. 24, No. 2), I'm still curious what other people think. (I'm also playing 9 selected studies from Gradus ad Parnassum - wonderful music! - as well as a few other miscellaneous pieces)

[thalbergmad]

The Op 40 no 2 is the one I kep going back to.