Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 4 in C Major Op. 102 No. 1

Colin Carr, cellist
Thomas Sauer, pianist
Live Recording 'Beethoven Last Years' 12 Mar 2016 Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore by Rolton Productions
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COLIN CARR
Colin Carr appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has played with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, Montreal and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowasczewski and Marriner. Carr’s most memorable performances include the Dvorak Concerto to close the Prague Autumn Festival, and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, with Sir Colin Davis conducting, at Royal Festival Hall in London.
Recitals take Carr to major cities each season, with regular performances in London, New York and Boston. The 2007-08 season included cycles of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano with his duo partner Thomas Sauer in New York, Salt Lake City, Princeton and Oxford, Nottingham and the Lake District in England. He recently gave several cycles of the Bach Suites including for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and at the Gardner Museum in Boston.
Carr’s GM recordings of the unaccompanied cello works of Kodaly, Britten, Crumb, and Schuller, as well as his Bach Suites, are highly acclaimed. The Brahms Sonatas on Arabesque, with pianist Lee Luvisi, is also a favorite. As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he recorded and toured extensively for 20 years. He is a frequent visitor to international chamber music festivals worldwide and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and with New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Carr is the winner of many prestigious international awards, including First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, and Second Prize in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition. He was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, having been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years. In 1998, St. John’s College, Oxford created the post of “Musician in Residence” for him, and in September 2002 he became a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.
Carr’s cello was made by Matteo Gofriller in Venice in 1730. He makes his home with his wife Caroline and three young children, Clifford, Frankie, and Anya, in an old house outside Oxford.
THOMAS SAUER
Pianist Thomas Sauer is a highly sought after soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Recent appearances include concerto performances with the Quad-City and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Greenwich Village Orchestra; solo performances at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium), Merkin Concert Hall, Rockefeller University, and St. John’s College, Oxford; appearances on Broadway as the pianist in 33 Variations, a play about the composition of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations; and performances at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. With his long-time duo partner Colin Carr, Mr. Sauer has appeared at the Wigmore Hall (London), Holywell Music Room (Oxford), and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Musikgebouw, among many other venues. Other appearances include recitals with Midori at the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels; performances with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress; and numerous concerts with the Brentano String Quartet.
Mr. Sauer has performed at many of the leading festivals in the United States and abroad, including Marlboro, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, El Paso Pro Musica, Aloha International Piano Festival, and the Chamber Music Festivals of Seattle, Taos, Portland and Salt Bay (Maine); as well as Lake District Summer Music (England), Agassiz International Chamber Music Festival (Canada), Festival des Consonances (France), and Esbjerg Chamber Music Festival (Denmark).
Mr. Sauer’s varied discography includes recordings of Beethoven and Haydn piano sonatas for MSR Classics; with Colin Carr, the complete cello and piano works of Mendelssohn on Cello Classics and complete Beethoven on MSR Classics; a disc of Hindemith sonatas with violist Misha Amory (Musical Heritage Society); and music of Britten and Schnittke with cellist Wilhelmina Smith on Arabesque. In recent seasons, Mr. Sauer has premiered works by Philippe Bodin, Robert Cuckson, Sebastian Currier, Keith Fitch, David Loeb, Donald Martino, David Tcimpidis, and Richard Wilson.
A member of the music faculty of Vassar College and the piano faculty of the Mannes College, Mr. Sauer is the founder and director of the Mannes Beethoven Institute.