BEETHOVEN CELLO SONATA NO. 5, SECOND AND THIRD MOVEMENTS.

The article presents the discussion on period of isolation and difficulty for the composer. Topics include collection of Beethoven's five for cello and piano, in concerts over many years, has given me a sense of what it meant to Beethoven; and compositional ambition for the combination, apparently recognising the need to write a whole slow movement and a fugue as his final contribution to the genre.