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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Cause for Celebration,
By 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:
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Absolutely Wonderful!,
By 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:
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Equal to any, superior to most.,
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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.
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