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Faust and Melnikov make this music live and breathe more thrillingly than in any recent recording I can recall. --Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times, 6th Sept. 2009
These are the most stimulating and fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin sonatas I have heard in many years...these stimulating performances demand to be heard. *****/***** --Chamber Choice, BBC Music Magazine, October 2009
These are the most stimulating and fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin sonatas I have heard in many years...these stimulating performances demand to be heard. *****/***** --Chamber Choice, BBC Music Magazine, October 2009
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44 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a set that has to be heard to be believed! - beautifully captured playing within a faultless recording balance. Indeed, dynamism between pianist and violinist is what characterises this new set. It is restless, forward thrusting Beethoven, as though both artists are driven to communicate every once of expressive possibility (just listen to the restless momentum in the slow movement of the Kreutzer sonata) but without needing to resort to quirky mannerisms to make their point. This is playing that delves deep into the heart of the music tightening up on details not readily obvious in some other versions. Reviews elsewhere have alluded to the "classical" approach taken by these artists and the result, a tension between classical poise (just listen to Ms Faust's glistening tone) and expressivity, is what makes their playing so refreshing and deeply satisfying. I would say that this set easily displaces the much praised (but very closely miked) Kremer/Argerich set on D.G., or the vintage, Perlman/Ashkenazy set on Decca. Funny to think that now, by comparison with the newcomer, the Perlman, once lauded in its day for its classical purity, actually sounds closer to the traditional romantic school of violinists, while Ashkenazy's playing comes off as dreary, subservient plod. My only reservation has to do with the unusual packaging: We get three standard CD's with the fourth being a double-sided disc (featuring the Kreutzer Sonata on one side and a short "Making Of" DVD on the other). There are four cardboard flaps that fold outwards, each bearing a tray and disc, while the booklet is glued to the centre. Surely at least the booklet could have been made detachable for easier reading? Still, it is a beautifully illustrated set and an absolute listening must!!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
there is something magical about these performances these two soloists make a wonderful combination
I dont think i have heard the beethoven violin sonatas sound so fresh and insightful
the recording is so natural that it feels like its happening live in front of you.
I dont think i have heard the beethoven violin sonatas sound so fresh and insightful
the recording is so natural that it feels like its happening live in front of you.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is one of those CDs that I have played time and time again. I am always moved by the performances and discovering something new.
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