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The Ne Plus Ultra Beethoven Violin Sonata Cycle...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 09/21/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

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Schneiderhan has a very sweet, singing timbre, with great control and very finely mannered. His technique is superb. We have sweetness and strength here.



Kempff, of course, had about the best sense of Beethoven's architechtonics around.

Here he purposefully reins himself in a little to subtly correspond with Schneiderhan.

Really, the two swing like a jazz duo, each conscious of the other's playing.

This was a remarkable collaboration.

Kempff's strength is subtly apparent beneath Schneiderhan's sweetness.

Their timing is superb.



This is an almost Modernistic reading of these classically Romantic works.

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The One Beethoven Violin Sonata Recording to Get

Gadgester | Mother Earth | 04/28/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Teaming up two of the world's greatest players doesn't always work out well, but in this case, Schneiderhan and Kempff give us the best performance of Beethoven's great violin sonatas (the only violin sonatas worth listening to?) in recording. Not only do they play superbly, but they aptly capture the differences between the early sonatas and the late, mature ones. They do not rush through the sonatas in a speed race like many other performers, but instead offer the right pace and dynamics. I've listened to the Kreutzer and Spring many, many times, and each time I come back to this pair, I simply shake my head and say, man, nothing gets better than this."