Ries: Cello Sonatas (Full Album)

Tracklist below. Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: Brilliant Classics Spotify: Brilliant Classics Facebook: Best known now as a young friend and ever-patient amanuensis to the increasingly cantankerous Beethoven, Ferdinand Ries was himself the most talented member in a distinguished family of musicians. It was his father Franz who taught piano to both him and Beethoven in Bonn, and had the melancholy fortune to outlive his son by eight years after Ferdinand’s death in 1838. The son became Beethoven’s pupil in 1801, and while the teacher’s comment that ‘he imitates me too much’ is not unfair, one can only extend sympathy to poor Ries: what was he to do with such a master? Certainly the