Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas [Box set]

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Maria-João Pires (Performer), Augustin Dumay (piano) (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Maria-Joăo Pires, Augustin Dumay (piano)
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
• Audio CD (November 12, 2002)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B00006AKUV
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,276 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cause for Celebration, February 1, 2003

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Christopher Angius (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas (Audio CD)

For those who had forsaken of ever hearing entirely satisfactory performances of these enormously challenging works, the release of this three-disk set is a cause for celebration. Dumay and Pires, too little heard separately or together in this country but well known elsewhere, achieve what no other collaboration in the extensive discography of these sonatas has yet succeeded in realizing. Finally we hear the soaring bel canto lyricism, the flashing virtuosic energy, the intimacy, the intellectual introversion of these works, often within the short span of a few bars. No collaboration until now has consistently captured the breathtaking emotional sweep of these works that too often remains undiscovered. It is immediately apparent that this recording project was no hastily arranged meeting of marquee performers. Listening to these performances, we have the sense that each phrase, if not each measure, was analyzed and debated long before these performers brought their formidable technical powers to bear in the recording studio. To listen to these performances is to delight in things we have never heard before in works that we thought we knew so well. The result is a recording of unsurpassed beauty and insight in which Beethoven the lyricist and Beethoven the intellectual receive equal justice.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Wonderful!, March 7, 2003

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Jacques Racine (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas (Audio CD)

Thank-You Christopher for writing such a great review. I do not have much time, so here is the essential: the sound quality is awesome.

For the reviewers who have problem with it, two advices: get decent audio gear and tweak the acoustics of your room. It was even a Stereophile record of the month...

Enjoy

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Equal to any, superior to most., September 21, 2007

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Scott E. Peterman (Oneida, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas (Audio CD)

Valid interpretations of Beethoven's masterpieces require a delicate balance of fire and beauty. The Itzhak Perlman/Vladimir Ashkenazy set achieves that balance and so too does this set of Dumay/Pires. I do prefer the sound and balance of instruments of this set over the Perlman/Ashkenazy. Along with the Grumiaux/Haskil set, I count these as the 3 best currently available.