Chamber, Sonatas, Violin Sonatas, Beethoven (composer)
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New. Ludwig van Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas I
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (fortepiano)
Everywhere is colour, drama and thought-filled expressive detail... the intimacy and sensitively weighted balancing of this conversation, and the natural immediacy of Andrew Keener’s capturing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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What’s fascinating is the way these two musicians create performances of such charismatic individuality without seeming to do very much – other than play magnificently, of course. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 10th December 2022, Record of the Week
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Special offer. Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin and Piano Op. 12 No.1, Op. 24 & Op. 96
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Listening to Rachel Podger (on the ‘Mauri’ Strad) and Christopher Glynn (on an 1840 Erard) is like experiencing the music in the clear light of day for the first time. Gone are those texturally... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Chamber Choice
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Vol. 3
Sonatas 8-10
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)
Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen are an outstanding team, whose latest release brings their three-disc survey to an uplifting conclusion...Finest of all is the reading of the elusive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Chamber Music
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With some discs, you can just tell that everything’s going to go like a dream… The freshness and spontaneity of these interpretations is unfaltering, as is the instantaneous rapport and subtle,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Chamber
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 ‘Spring’, 9 ‘Kreutzer’ & 3
Alena Baeva (violin), Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Tempos never linger, contributing to a mesmerically shaded reading: vernal this Spring may be but the listener is ever aware of the likelihood of a sudden storm that blows away as swiftly as... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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the adventurous spirit Weithaas and Várjon convey here makes me eager to hear future instalments. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Although Beethoven designated these works as 'for piano and violin', following Mozart's example, it's unlikely that he thought of the piano as leading the proceedings, or the violin either,... —
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Building a Library, December 2002, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Grammy Awards, 21st Awards (1978), Best Chamber Music Recording
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[Mullova] using an exquisitely subtle range of vibrato, from a gloriously pure senza to gentle inflections that both sooth and insinuate. —
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The Allegro con spirito of the Third Sonata – Op. 1 2 No 3 – is permeated by a bounding optimism which this pair nicely catch, and they bring out the poetry of the Adagio, darkening the piano’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Chamber Music
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