Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Douze variations sur le thème "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" d'après l'opéra de Mozart "La Flûte enchantée", op. 66
Sept variations sur le thème "Bei Männern welche Lieve fühlen" d'après l'opéra de Mozart "La Flûte enchantée", WoO 46
Sonate pour violoncelle et piano en la majeur, op. 69

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
"Anfang eines Adagios", pour violoncelle et piano, d'après le fragment KV 580a

Franz Xaver Mozart (1791-1844)
Grande Sonate pour violoncelle et piano en mi majeur, op. 19, WV VI:13

Julius Berger, violoncelle
Margarita Höhenrieder, piano

For more than 40 years, the Augsburg cellist Julius Berger has been a mainstay of the musical world. Not just because he is a wonderful interpreter, a 'prophet of the cello', as Frankfurte r Allgemeine newspaper critic W. E. von Lewinsky hailed him following his second recording of Bach's cello suite, but because he looks to enrich the world of music in many ways, as an interpreter, teacher, researcher and thinker who is not content simply to follow the well-trodden path. In demand as a soloist and chamber musician worldwide, he has recorded numerous CDs and trained talented up-and-coming musicians. Following the success of Inspired by Bach Julius Berger returns with another programme ex ploring the influence of a great composer on the cello repertory. In his extended note Berger illustrates Mozart's influence in Beethoven's two sets of variations, F.X.W. Mozart's 'Grande Sonate' and Beethoven's Sonata, op.69.