2 × hören: Beethoven

You'd better listen to it twice! There are instruments that were far more in Ludwig van Beethoven's focus than the cello. For this reason alone, it is worth listening carefully to the Sonata for Piano and Violoncello op. 102 No. 2. In 1815, Beethoven wrote his last contribution to the then still young genre and brought about nothing less than a paradigm shift: Beethoven helped the cello from an accompanying position to one equal to the piano and at the same time gave his sonata an impressive expressiveness in addition to the highly complex fugue in the final movement. The cellist, university professor and accomplished music mediator Eckart Runge and his long-standing duo partner Jacques Ammon will perform Beethoven's sonata twice and, in between, trace the significance of the work for the emancipation of the cello in a workshop discussion with artistic director Markus Fein.