Composed: 1801–02Genres:
Chamber » Sonatas » Violin Sonatas
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So far as these sonatas are concerned, Weithaas and Várjon allow you to learn, listen and love as never before. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - [Chamber Music]
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Although Beethoven designated these works as 'for piano and violin', following Mozart's example, it's unlikely that he thought of the piano as leading the proceedings, or the violin either,... —
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Building a Library, December 2002, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Grammy Awards, 21st Awards (1978), Best Chamber Music Recording
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The Kreutzer Sonata is placed first, so we hear James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong presenting their credentials in turn – Ehnes with effortless accurate double stops, and Armstrong picking up... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-10
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
…the most stimulating and fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin sonatas I have heard in many years. Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov bring out the full quirkiness of the earlier... —
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Building a Library, October 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Chamber
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this new cycle is unfailingly musical, and it can hold its own with the best of its predecessors. In particular the French players' performance of the last and greatest sonata, Op. 96...is as... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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[Beatson is] undoubtedly a fine player, and in the [Op. 12 No. 1] sonata’s outer movements both he and Mullova convey the full energy and quirkiness of the young Beethoven at his most provocatively... —
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Building A Library, July 2021, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Vol. 2
Sonatas 5- 7
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Martin Helmchen
It can easily be tempting for performers to emphasise the lyrical character of the first movement of the Spring Sonata at the expense of its more dramatic side. That’s not a charge which can... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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