Sol Gabetta plays Beethoven and Chopin
October 7, 2015![Sol Gabetta. Photo: Uwe Arens](https://static.dw.com/image/18656616_800.webp)
The cello-playing star can be heard here for a limited time in an evening of chamber music titled "From Men in Love to Robert the Devil." "Men in Love" is a reference to the work in which Beethoven wrote musical variations on a theme from Mozart's "The Magic Flute." Chopin did the same with a theme from Meyerbeer's "Robert the Devil."
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Seven variations in E-Flat Major for cello and piano on the duet "In Men Who Feel in Love" from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute," WoO 46
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata No. 3 in A Major for cello and piano, op. 69
Frédéric Chopin:
Sonata in G Minor for cello and piano, op. 65
Frédéric Chopin:
Grand duo concertant in E Major for cello and piano on themes from "Robert le diable"
Frédéric Chopin:
Etude in C-sharp Minor, adapted for cello and piano by Alexander Glazunov (encore)
Dmitry Shostakovich:
Scherzo from the Sonata for cello and piano (encore)
with Sol Gabetta, cello
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Recorded by DeutschlandRadio Köln (DLR) in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn on September 9, 2015