Terry Callier is an American jazz, soul and folk guitarist, singer and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. A childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, Callier began recording in 1963 but never reached stardom despite a series of regional hits in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1983, he decided to retire from music due to personal reasons. He re-emerged from obscurity when British DJs discovered his old recordings and began to play them in clubs in the early 90s....

The penultimate release in Angela Hewitt's cycle of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas features the Piano Sonata in F minor Op.2 No.1. The listener's understanding is again enhanced by Hewitt's illuminating booklet notes, in which she sets out her approach to performing these most canonic of works in the entire piano literature.