Although Beethoven only composed five sonatas designed originally for solo cello and piano, they demonstrate a greater variety than his more numerous violin sonatas. The Sonata in E flat major, Op. 64 is an arrangement, thought to be by Beethoven, of the composer’s String Trio Op. 3, and the Sonata No. 3 in A major was written for Beethoven’s close friend Baron Ignaz von Gleichenstein. The two works are featured on this recording together with the attractive set of variations on Papageno’s Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart’s The Magic Flute.