Marie-Elisabeth Hecker & Martin Helmchen

Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" from Die Zauberflöte for Cello and Piano in E-flat major, WoO 46

Alfred Schnittke
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1

INTERMISSION

Robert Schumann
Three Romances, Op. 94

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 58

Alfred Schnittke’s First Cello Sonata is among the works featured on Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen’s acclaimed recent album From Eastern Europe. The piece now serves as the duo’s calling card for its Pierre Boulez Saal debut, alongside rarely performed works by Beethoven and Schumann as well as Mendelssohn’s Second Cello Sonata.