Beethoven: The Complete Cello Sonatas

Beethoven: The Complete Cello Sonatas

Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Stephen Prutsman, piano

Presented by the South Asian Symphony Foundation

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.