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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano: Episode 1

Mark Padmore, James Baillieu, Heath Quartet - Tippett

Episode 1

Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano, Episode 1

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov in Beethoven: Cello Sonatas: Op 5 No 1; Op 5 No 2.

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) and Alexander Melnikov (piano) perform Beethoven: Cello Sonatas: Op 5 No 1; Op 5 No 2; Op 69; Variations on Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London


Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov in the first of two recitals of Beethoven's complete sonatas and variations for cello and piano. The composer made a strikingly assured venture into a genre that was still in its infancy when he penned his two cello sonatas Op. 5 during a triumphant visit to Berlin in 1796, one of the happiest periods in a life all too often marked by suffering and setbacks.

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2

8.20pm: Interval - Mozart, arr. Went: Die entfuhrung aus dem Serail, performed by the Winds of the Berlin Philharmonic
8.40pm: Part 2

Beethoven: Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen' from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte Wo0. 46
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A Op. 69

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Alexander Melnikov (piano).

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Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov perform music by Beethoven for cello and piano

From the Wigmore Hall in London, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov feature in recitals of Beethoven's complete sonatas and variations for cello and piano

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