Hummel, Romberg, Rossini, & Schubert: 1824 - Works For Cello

This album focuses on the year 1824 and brings it to life through the marvelous music of four composers who gave the cello a special role in their compositions. The text is a loose collection of well-known, newly discovered, strange and everyday happenings, anecdotes, moods and opinions which throw light on a year in which much else happens, not least of all the first performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. (Prospero)