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The Pathetique has always been my favorite Beethoven sonata, but I suppose it is too overcooked for a concert. I like Kreisler's suggestion, 14/2 especially. And 110/111 are also solid choices.
If you're asking specifically to find out what I would play, then I would have to say I am not sure. I have very little Beethoven in my "current repertoire" (though I hesitate to even call it a "repertoire"), and my time is very short, so I would have to pick one I've already worked at some point. That would leave me with all the famous ones, and few of the not-so-famous ones. I suppose the level, purpose, and audience of the concert/venue would make the determination for me.
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I'd pick one that 1.) I'd already worked on, since it's next year, which is real soon, and 2.) one I really enjoy working on, since it's next year, which is real soon, and I'd have to spend lots of hours on it. Given all that, I think it would be the G major, op. 14, no. 2.
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The fugue from the op.110 melts my heart everytime!
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109.
Or the 7th violin, which I've played like a hundred times.
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Twice in one month? I should've stayed up the extra 21 minutes to see what you keep saying.. haha 
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I suspect my favorite one to play would be ... the one I happened to be working on at the time! Well, it's all hypothetical, since I'm not actually working on one. 
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....90 if I was going to pick one I already learned, just because the 1st movement is such a blast to play. The reason I'd play Op. 90 is because the 2nd mvt is such a blast to play! That means the whole piece is a blast. It sure it! Yeah, the second movement is really beautiful. I had a tough time memorizing it, though.
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Twice in one month? I should've stayed up the extra 21 minutes to see what you keep saying.. haha It had sounded to me like your having said your "time is short" meant something bad, and wondered out loud about it, then decided it was needless so deleted it. I hope and trust it was.
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....90 if I was going to pick one I already learned, just because the 1st movement is such a blast to play. The reason I'd play Op. 90 is because the 2nd mvt is such a blast to play!.... ....Yeah, the second movement is really beautiful. I had a tough time memorizing it, though. Of course -- it's just the same thing over and over! 
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I suppose if I am given an entire year to learn this Sonata, then I would probably choose op. 7. It is one of my all time favorites and one that I personally think is underplayed.
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Twice in one month? I should've stayed up the extra 21 minutes to see what you keep saying.. haha It had sounded to me like your having said your "time is short" meant something bad, and wondered out loud about it, then decided it was needless so deleted it. I hope and trust it was. I went back and re-read what I wrote, and realized how that might have sounded. Not at all what I intended. I simply meant I travel a lot, I do not own a piano, and the availability for me to play one is very limited. I'll have to phrase that better in the future so as not to give myself a premature heart attack. 
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If I was going to learn a new one, then either 101 or 109. 90 if I was going to pick one I already learned, just because the 1st movement is such a blast to play. Well I decided to learn Op31 no 3, so I guess that makes me a liar!
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