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Beethoven, Szigeti, Arrau
Sonatas for Violin & Piano 1-10
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro con brio
2. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Tema con Variazioni (Andante con moto)
3. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro
4. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro vivace
5. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Andante piu tosto Allegretto
6. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro piacevole
7. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro con spirito
8. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Adagio con molt' espressione
9. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro molto
Track Listings (7) - Disc #2
1. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Presto
2. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Andante scherzoso, piu Allegretto
3. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro molto
4. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro
5. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Adagio molto espressivo
6. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Scherzo (Allegro molto)
7. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro ma non troppo
Track Listings (10) - Disc #3
1. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro
2. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Adagio, molto espressivo
3. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegretto con Variazioni
4. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro con brio
5. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Adagio cantabile
6. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Scherzo (Allegro)
7. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro
8. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro assai
9. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Tempo di Minuetto (ma molto moderato e grazioso)
10. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro vivace
Track Listings (7) - Disc #4
1. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Adagio sostenuto; Presto
2. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Andante con Variazioni
3. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Presto
4. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Allegro moderato
5. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Adagio espressivo
6. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Scherzo (Allegro)
7. Sonatas (10) for violin & piano: Poco allegretto

CD Details

All Artists: Beethoven, Szigeti, Arrau
Title: Sonatas for Violin & Piano 1-10
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Vanguard Classics
Release Date: 1/4/1994
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 4
SwapaCD Credits: 4
UPC: 723918806020

Synopsis

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While the Joseph Szigeti/Claudio Arrau pairing looks promising on paper, Szigeti is essentially fighting an uphill battle with a stylish but rather subdued pianist. Arrau was a great Beethoven player, but was chamber music his thing? Compare this rather static Kreutzer Sonata to the wrenching one Szigeti played with Bartók only a few years earlier in the same venue, and you'll hear what I mean. Adequate archival sonics. --Jed Distler

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CD Reviews

The supreme perfection !

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 11/08/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

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To play with such perfection level these admirable sonatas you must be provided not only with a wonderful and outstanding musicality , commitment and complete domain of the Beethoven idiom bot besides establish a special rapport with your partner .

All these requirements are in this CD . Claudio Arrau does not need presentation . But you have to recognize the Fifties was the most glorious decade for him . He did not only record one of the most notable Schumann Piano Concerto performances under Victor De Sabata and the New York Philharmonic, but besides he was in an effervescent state, creativity and histamine and the presence of this giant violinist (The greatest of the Century to my mind) Joseph Szigetti produced a happy blending of charm , elegance , virility, strength , fineness .

I have the readings of Kempff -Menuhin , Francescati-Casadesus and and Heifetz -Bay but this set is the winner, by far .

I do not know about other set capable to beat this .

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