Beethoven: The Complete Cello Sonatas

Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Stephen Prutsman, piano

Beethoven’s five cello sonatas are a musical life story in miniature. Written over more than 30 years, they span all three of the composer’s creative periods—from the elegance of his early works through the bold confidence of his middle period to the searching, intimate language of his late style. Along the way, Beethoven reshapes the cello sonata into a true dialogue, with the cello and piano as equal partners in conversation. By turns energetic, lyrical, playful and deeply reflective, these sonatas offer listeners a rare chance to experience Beethoven’s imagination not in fragments but as a complete and compelling journey.

Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan is an internationally respected chamber musician, best known as a founding member of the Horszowski Trio and the Daedalus Quartet, with whom he has toured widely and recorded extensively. He is an artiste member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, serves on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, New York, and has performed at major venues and festivals across the US, Europe and Asia.

Pianist Stephen Prutsman has been described as one of the most innovative musicians of his time. A winner at the Tchaikovsky and Queen Elisabeth Piano Competitions in the early ’90s and moving seamlessly from classical to jazz to world music styles as a pianist and composer, Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground and relationships in the music of all cultures and languages.

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Beethoven: The Complete Cello Sonatas