Intimate Classics: Bridge to the Romantic Era

Bridge to the Romantic Era

Cellist Paul Tseng and pianist Ching-Ming Cheng trace the passage from the Classical to the Romantic era through two remarkable sonatas. Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2 in G minor points toward a new world of dramatic and expressive possibility. Nearly eighty years later, Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No. 1 in C minor looks back to Beethoven while speaking in the richer language of Romanticism. Two composers, separated by generations, connected across one of music history’s great transformations.