Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Seven Variations on 'Bei Männern,
welche Liebe fühlen' from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, WoO46
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Sonata in A minor, D. 821, "Arpeggione"
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58
David Popper (1843-1913): Elfentanz, Op. 39

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy knew both material and cultural privilege, though neither could adequately explain the phenomenal musical gifts he demonstrated during childhood. Brought up in a stimulating intellectual ambience in Berlin, where his family moved from Hamburg soon after his birth, both he and his sister Fanny received every encouragement in their artistic and intellectual endeavours. As a boy Mendelssohn was taught by Cari Zelter, who introduced him to Goethe in Weimar, and when little more than a child composed a succession of works of misleading mat