大象传媒

Sol Gabetta and Alexander Melnikov play music for cello and fortepiano by Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn.

Presented by Sarah Walker

In his 250th anniversary year, last year's prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival focused on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven

Gabetta and Melnikov chose to contrast the first of his cello sonatas, written by the twenty-something composer at the start of his career, with the last, which he wrote nearly two decades later at the height of his powers

Beethoven
Cello Sonata in F, Op.5/1

Mendelssohn
Song without words in D, Op.109
Beethoven
Cello Sonata in D, Op.102/2

Sol Gabetta, cello
Alexander Melnikov, fortepiano