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Colin Carr and Thomas Sauer make a welcome return to Lakeside with an all-Beethoven programme. Beethoven s first cello sonata and variations on a popular aria from Mozart s The Magic Flute were written in 1796 for the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, a keen cellist himself. These earlier works are contrasted with his expressive last cello sonatas, Op.102, written when Beethoven was almost completely deaf and suffering from increasing social isolation.