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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas [Box set] [Enhanced]

~ Anne-Sophie Mutter (Artist), Lambert Orkis (Artist)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (26 Oct 1998)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set, Enhanced
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B00000DI22
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 100,026 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in D, Op.12 No.1 - 1. Allegro con brio 9:20Album Only
Listen  2. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in D, Op.12 No.1 - 2. Tema con variazioni (Andante con moto) 7:42Album Only
Listen  3. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in D, Op.12 No.1 - 3. Rondo (Allegro) 5:10£0.79
Listen  4. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A, Op.12 No.2 - 1. Allegro vivace 6:50£0.79
Listen  5. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A, Op.12 No.2 - 2. Andante più tosto allegretto 5:15£0.79
Listen  6. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A, Op.12 No.2 - 3. Allegro piacevole 5:37£0.79
Listen  7. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in E flat, Op.12 No.3 - 1. Allegro con spirito 8:38Album Only
Listen  8. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in E flat, Op.12 No.3 - 2. Adagio con molt'espressione 6:12£0.79
Listen  9. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in E flat, Op.12 No.3 - 3. Rondo (Allegro molto) 4:21£0.79


Disc 2:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.4 in A minor, Op.23 - 1. Presto 9:05Album Only
Listen  2. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.4 in A minor, Op.23 - 2. Andante scherzoso, più allegretto 8:48Album Only
Listen  3. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.4 in A minor, Op.23 - 3. Allegro molto 5:57£0.79
Listen  4. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F, Op.24 - "Spring" - 1. Allegro10:34Album Only
Listen  5. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F, Op.24 - "Spring" - 2. Adagio molto espressivo 5:56£0.79
Listen  6. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F, Op.24 - "Spring" - 3. Scherzo (Allegro molto) 1:22£0.79
Listen  7. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F, Op.24 - "Spring" - 4. Rondo (Allegro ma non troppo) 7:29Album Only
Listen  8. Allegro in G major, for mechanical clock, WoO33/3 - Arr.: Willy Hess 2:17£0.79


Disc 3:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.6 in A, Op.30 No.1 - 1. Allegro 8:25Album Only
Listen  2. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.6 in A, Op.30 No.1 - 2. Adagio 7:06Album Only
Listen  3. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.6 in A, Op.30 No.1 - 3. Allegretto con variazioni 8:15Album Only
Listen  4. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.7 in C minor, Op.30 No.2 - 1. Allegro con brio 8:29Album Only
Listen  5. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.7 in C minor, Op.30 No.2 - 2. Adagio cantabile 9:08Album Only
Listen  6. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.7 in C minor, Op.30 No.2 - 3. Scherzo (Allegro) 3:35£0.79
Listen  7. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.7 in C minor, Op.30 No.2 - 4. Finale (Allegro) 5:35£0.79
Listen  8. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.8 in G, Op.30 No.3 - 1. Allegro assai 6:53£0.79
Listen  9. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.8 in G, Op.30 No.3 - 2. Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso 9:34Album Only
Listen10. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.8 in G, Op.30 No.3 - 3. Allegro vivace 3:47£0.79
Listen11. 12 Contredanses, WoO 14 - Arrangement: Willy Hess - Nos. 4 & 7 1:49£0.79


Disc 4:

Samples
Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 in A, Op.47 - "Kreutzer" - 1. Adagio sostenuto - Presto15:18Album Only
Listen  2. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 in A, Op.47 - "Kreutzer" - 2. Andante con variazioni18:14Album Only
Listen  3. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.9 in A, Op.47 - "Kreutzer" - 3. Finale (Presto)10:23Album Only
Listen  4. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.10 in G, Op.96 - 1. Allegro moderato11:27Album Only
Listen  5. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.10 in G, Op.96 - 2. Adagio espressivo 6:12£0.79
Listen  6. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.10 in G, Op.96 - 3. Scherzo (Allegro) 1:56£0.79
Listen  7. Sonata for Violin and Piano No.10 in G, Op.96 - 4. Poco allegretto 9:25Album Only
Listen  8. Minuet in G, WoO 10 No.2 - Arr.: Mischa Elman 3:36£0.79

On this CD:
  1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  2. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  3. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in E flat
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  4. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A minor
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  5. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5, 'Spring' in F
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  6. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6 in A
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  7. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C minor
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  8. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  9. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9, 'Kreutzer' in A
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  10. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  11. (5) Pieces
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  12. (12) Contredanses
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

  13. (6) Minuets
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

This complete cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas was recorded during a series of live performances in 1998. Mutter devoted the entire year, together with her partner, Lambert Orkis, to an extensive global tour focused on these works, and the accounts are infused with a sense of cross-connection, expressive freedom and depth of insight acquired from such prolonged concentration. It shows Mutter in full maturity, commanding the artistic confidence to take risks and imprint her intensely personal signature. Mutter's characteristically sumptuous, caressing tone tends to be overstated for Beethoven's heartily playful turns and mercurial humour in the fast movements of the Op. 12 group, but the luminous beauty with which she phrases the "Adagio" of the Third Sonata is just one of many passages (consider, for example, Sonata No. 8's slow movement, as well) of sustained, heart-stopping poetry on this set. The famous Spring Sonata gains an added dimension in the context of the passionately engaged performance of its preceding companion/counterpart predecessor (the Fourth Sonata in A Minor). There's a full partnership between violin and piano (too often missing in accounts of these works) that allows Mutter and Orkis to play off each other with full-blooded spontaneity, perhaps at its most engrossing in the boldly searching scope of their Kreutzer Sonata, which stands in wonderful contrast to the intimate loftiness of the final Sonata in G--Mutter's own favourite. Throughout the set, Mutter couples her probing intelligence with nuanced phrasing, incisive rhythms and expressive gestures (notice the tender turn she gives to the all-important trill that opens the last sonata) to bore into the music, unearthing many buried treasures. The discs also include a handful of encores as bonbons and are encoded with CD-plus software so that listeners can follow the scores of four of the Sonatas. --Thomas May

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great live recording, 8 Mar 2002
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One of the most appealing things about this set of live recordings is that the encores are included which are transcriptions of various pieces without opus number, which is a real treat. Of course, as one would expect from Mutter, the playing is first class and Orkis is a great back up, they obviously enjoyed playing together. A definite consideration when choosing from the plethora of recordings - look out for the Perlmann ones though!
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