CD 1:
Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1
12 Variations on “See the conquering hero comes” from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus for Pianoforte and Violoncello, WoO 45
Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2
12 Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for Pianoforte and Violoncello, Op. 6

CD 2:
Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello in A Major, Op. 69
7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for Pianoforte and Violoncello, WoO 46
Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1
Sonata for Pianoforte and Violoncello in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2

Each time I approach Beethoven’s Sonatas and Variations for Piano and Cello is a life-affirming milestone. To grapple with the composer’s uncompromising vision, his ideal of equality and balance reached only through the conflict and union of two disparate souls is, in the words of my thesis advisor at Harvard University, the eminent scholar Lewis Lockwood, to “approach… the very edge of insight into the workings of a great composer’s mind.”…

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Recorded on period instruments. This album was recorded at Skywalker Sound in Lucas Valley, California, USA in January 2014.