Chamber, Sonatas, Cello Sonatas, Beethoven (composer)
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Watkins and Bax have embraced Beethoven's fire and storms, but also found beauty and balance that others miss. Certainly it feels as though a new Beethoven cello sonatas benchmark has landed. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Recording of the Month
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This set contains of the finest Beethoven performances you are likely to hear. Steven Isserlis is on blazing form: every note lives, every movement is characterised with infectious relish; his... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th January 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 and variations
RecommendedAndrás Schiff (piano) & Miklós Perényi (cello)
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Building a Library, December 2008, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, December 2021, Also Recommended
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Beethoven - Complete Music for Cello & Piano
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Jean Françaix (piano), Maurice Gendron (cello)
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Special offer. Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 and variations
Matt Haimovitz (cello), Christopher O'Riley (fortepiano)
Haimovitz and O'Riley are intelligent and sympathetic of these sonatas, and also of the three shorter sets of variations. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Recorded in l’Arsenal, Metz in January 2015 by Nicolas Bartholomée & Maximilien Ciup (Little Tribeca)
Xavier Phillips (cello) & François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
these are really fine, dynamic accounts, with virtuosity appropriately to the fore…Guy and Phillips succeed in plumbing the depths of the latter sonata's middle movement - the only sustained... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Beethoven - Complete Works for Piano & Cello
RecommendedAdrian Brendel (cello) & Alfred Brendel (piano)
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Building a Library, March 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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Grynyuk handles his part with delicacy and flexibility, and his articulation throughout this recording is pellucid even at top speed. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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The readings have a lived-in quality: lively, warm, articulate, spacious and deeply felt on the plus side, a little frayed around the edges and tending towards the baggy on the other. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)
Shura Cherkassky (piano), Robert Lortat, Marcel Hubert, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich
APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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