New Album Announcement

Posted: 31 October 2025.

Steven and pianist Connie Shih’s much-anticipated new album ‘1851’ has now been released, featuring sonatas by Robert Schumann and Ignaz Moscheles.

The album brings together two remarkable sonatas from 1851:

  • Robert Schumann’s astonishing Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 121, one of the composer’s most monumental works – arranged for cello and piano by Steven
  • Ignaz Moscheles’s Cello Sonata in E major, also Op. 121, and  dedicated to Schumann – a genial, loveable work too rarely heard today.

Coupled with shorter works by Schumann, Ferdinand David (the dedicatee of the Schumann sonata and Bach/Gounod, the famous Ave Maria, also featuring the Gesualdo Six.

Listeners can enjoy a sneak-peek: a movement from the Moscheles Cello Sonata in E major (Op. 121) is available as a sample.

Curious what the critics thought? Read the Gramophone review here, and the Strad review here (subscription required).