Cello sonatas as a belated birthday present

Prize winner Ben Cruchley was a guest in the Chamber Music Hall of the Beethoven House in Bonn in January 2021. Together with his duo partner, cellist Jonathan Weigle, he presented the city's greatest son with a belated birthday present: all five of the composer's sonatas for cello and piano were heard in Beethoven's birthplace: From the youthful Two Sonatas op. 5 to the Great A Major Sonata op. 69 to the two visionary pieces op. 102 from the late creative period, they formed a journey through Beethoven's entire oeuvre. In the midst of a time when live concerts in front of an audience were unthinkable in large parts of Europe, the two musicians drew a special concert evening with their livestream concert that had audiences worldwide. Deutsche Telekom AG supported the concert in several ways: in addition to IT infrastructure created especially for the concerts, Telekom also provided the concert hall free of charge for the two musicians.

SWR2Cluster reported on the concert in advance (in German).