Musik / kammermusik

Cello sonatas


Anmeldelser (79)


classicalsource.com

2019 August

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Tully Potter

2019 August

"Here is an outstanding set of the Beethoven Cello Sonatas by two players of the younger age group ... I am grateful for their slow tempos: they are capable of sustaining them and they make the most of some attractive music. The Allegro of Opus 5/1 features sparkling piano-playing: the cellist has a lovely tone, the instruments are well balanced and quieter passages are sensitively done ... In Opus 5/2, they take the introduction very seriously, playing it with great depth of feeling ... The pianist sets a neat tempo for the Finale and the cellist is right with him: each episode finds them of one mind".


AllMusic

2010

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Uncle Dave Lewis

2010

"Dinnerstein is an excellent choice as accompanist given her fundamental understanding of classical tempi, keen touch, and her general abilities in Beethoven ... One very satisfying aspect of this recording is that Bailey and Dinnerstein do not treat the variation sets as throwaway junk ... No matter how many complete recordings there have already been of Beethoven's music for cello and piano, this one is a contender".


RBB Kultur

d. 16. juli 2020

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Clemens Goldberg

d. 16. juli 2020

"Die fünf Sonaten in der Besetzung Klavier und Cello sind ein perfekter Einstieg, um Beethovens frühe, mittlere und späte Schaffenszeit kennenzulernen. Wir sagen zwar immer "Cellosonaten", der Pianist Beethoven sah allerdings sein Instrument niemals als Begleitung oder Dienerin des Cellos. Darüber hinaus regte ihn die Kombination der beiden Instrumente zu besonders experimentellem Komponieren an. In dieser Aufnahme zum Beethoven-Jahr versuchen die Künstler mit "originalen" Instrumenten der Klangwelt Beethovens nahe zu kommen".


The observer

d. 12. juni 2021

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Fiona Maddocks

d. 12. juni 2021

"Hope Amid Tears is a wonderfully generous and probing recording of Beethoven's cello sonatas and three sets of variations, by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax ... Ma brings boldness and individuality to every note, using slides between notes as needed; the attack vigorous, the lyricism poetic. Ax is the perfect partner, as heartfelt and eloquent as he is witty. A set to treasure".


NDR.de

d. 27. juni 2021

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Marcus Stäbler

d. 27. juni 2021

"CD der Woche: Das Cello singt mit warmer, aber gedeckter Stimme. Erst das Klavier bringt hellere Töne. Dieser Farbwechsel am Beginn von Beethovens A-Dur-Sonate ist kein Einzelfall, sondern prägt das ganze Programm ... Hier ist eine beinahe diebische Freude an der Musik zu spüren. Diese Lust, gemeinsam zu gestalten und Funken sprühen zu lassen, zeichnet die ganze Aufnahme aus, ebenso wie die technische Souveränität der beiden Interpreten. Eine starke Einspielung".


The observer

d. 14. maj 2022

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Fiona Maddocks

d. 14. maj 2022

"The test piece for anyone sampling these excellent sets is the best known sonata, No 3 in A major Op 69, in which piano and cello find full equality. A peerless technician, Weilerstein embraces both the expansive lyricism and fragile intensity of this work, the singing melodies contrasted with explosive "middle period" drama. She is compelling, too, in the [other] sonatas".


MusicWeb international

2020 June

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Mark S. Zimmer

2020 June

"One constant in this recording that troubles me is that the cello often is buried under the sound of the piano ... Alstaedt and Lonquich have played these pieces together in concert numerous times, and their interaction conveys a deep understanding of the music, born out of familiarity with the compositions and each other. That makes these balance issues obnoxious, as I found myself struggling at times to hear the gut strings of the cello ... Although there is much to enjoy here in terms of performance, the imbalance between the keyboard and the cello makes that prospect more difficult than it should be".


MusicWeb international

2020 August

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Brian Wilson (musikanmelder)

2020 August

"Beethoven's Cello Sonatas span almost the whole of his career and Alpha have helpfully laid them out for us here in chronological order ... The new Alpha is more distinctive in that the music is played on instruments of the time ... There's little to criticise in the Alpha recording. I didn't notice the imbalance that my colleague mentions. Overall, the sound is very good ... [It] meets the need for a good period-instrument performance and do so very well".


Jyllands-posten

d. 25. jan. 2015

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Jens Povlsen

d. 25. jan. 2015

"Queyras og Melnikov har det hele og spiller som duo krystalklart og med en fin tyngde. Levende og glødende i deres fællesmusikalske åndedrag, men heller ikke bange for at sætte musikken i brand, når det kræves. Det er fortællingen, der dikterer stemningen, og den fanger de eminent. Hver gang. Queyras og Melnikov løfter Beethoven til en hel lille galakse af følelser og alvor".


Politiken

d. 25. nov. 2020

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Thomas Michelsen

d. 25. nov. 2020

"Toke Møldrup har netop udsendt et album med [Beethovens] fem sonater. Hans klang på det store strygeinstrument er bred og egal, hans teknik er sikker, og så har han teamet op med en pianist, der løfter det hele et ekstra hak.Israelske Yaron Kohlberg kan alt det med præcision og omhu i detaljen, som er et krav for kammermusikere i dag. Det er vigtigt. For i de to tidlige af Beethovens cellosonater er klaveret mindst lige så fremtrædende som sin strygerpartner, og Kohlberg klarer opgaven veloplagt og perlende. Musikerne er skarpe, og det er en nydelse at høre pianisten give Beethovens musikalske sætninger mening og afslutte dem med elegance".


Kristeligt dagblad

d. 8. feb. 2021

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Peter Dürrfeld

d. 8. feb. 2021

"En dobbelt-cd fra pladeselskabet Aulicus kan opleves som en ny påmindelse om Beethovens forbløffende musikalske alsidighed. Det drejer sig om hans værker for cello og klaver i en indspilning med den danske cellist Toke Møldrup og den israelske pianist Yaron Kohlberg ... De to musikere spiller med en sikker fornemmelse for denne form for kammermusik. Møldrup har en smuk og egalt syngende celloklang, og Kohlbergs spil illustrerer fint, at Beethoven i en række værker opfattede klaveret som en ligeværdig partner i samspillet".


Politiken

d. 27. juli 2022

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Thomas Michelsen

d. 27. juli 2022

"Deres indspilning af Beethovens fem cellosonater er flot gennemført og uden fejl. Den lever op til de høje standarder i en nutidig klassisk musikverden, hvor rynker er glattet ud, og hvor effektivitet og driftssikkerhed er en afgørende del af det at have en topkarriere. Beethoven ydes absolut retfærdighed af Alisa Weilerstein og Inon Barnatan. Alligevel ender man med at savne større spændvidde i nuancerne og ro til for alvor at mærke, hvor dyb og rørende denne musik faktisk er".


Kristeligt dagblad

d. 27. jan. 2020

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Peter Dürrfeld

d. 27. jan. 2020

"To israelske musikere tager cellosonaterne under kærlig behandling, nemlig den 33-årige pianist Omri Epstein og den 26-årige cellist Ori Epstein. De fortolker sonaterne med stor indlevelse, og desuden indeholder dobbelt-cd'en nogle attraktive variationsstykker over kendte melodier af Händel og Mozart, sidstnævnte repræsenteret med to numre fra hans elskede opera " Trylle-fløjten" ... Alt i alt er der her tale om en udgivelse, der også qua sine udmærkede noter giver os et godt indblik i en lidt mindre kendt side af den store Beethoven".


Politiken

d. 6. feb. 2020

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Thomas Michelsen

d. 6. feb. 2020

"Beethoven skrev ikke færre end fem sonater for cello og klaver ... og Beethovens to tidlige cellosonater bliver til ren, dejlig musik i hænderne på de israelske brødre Ori og Omri Epstein. De to fine fortolkere med næsten enslydende fornavne er vant til at arbejde sammen i Busch-trioen. Men i anledning af 250-året for Beethovens fødsel har de dannet en duo og udgivet en samlet indspilning af Beethovens værker for cello og klaver, og den er det en fornøjelse at lytte til ... Eftertænksom og fuld af hensyntagen ... Cellisten Ori og pianisten Omri Epstein har med disse indspilninger leveret en stærk udgivelse, vi også skal lytte til, når Beethoven-jubelåret er ovre".


Politiken

d. 2. jan. 2007

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Thomas Michelsen

d. 2. jan. 2007

"Her er retning og idé. Tænksomhed og ro. Men også kant og en konstant fornemmelse af omhu med det samlede udtryk ... Minussiden består i en enkelt usikker plet i den første af de sene sonater og en cellotone, der opad i højden nærmer sig det nasale. I øvrigt er det afgørende indtryk, at her musiceres på en gang frit og intimt".


Berlingske tidende

d. 7. nov. 2006

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Søren H. Schauser

d. 7. nov. 2006

"Samtlige satser er helt igennem smukke, musikernes tekniske niveau i top og balancen mellem dem i verdensklasse. For ikke at nævne alle farverne og de skiftende stemninger i harmonierne ... Et spændende sæt".


Jyllands-posten

d. 4. juli 2006

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John Christiansen

d. 4. juli 2006


Kristeligt dagblad

d. 9. aug. 2006

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Bernhard Lewkovitch

d. 9. aug. 2006


Jyllands-posten

d. 14. dec. 2005

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John Christiansen

d. 14. dec. 2005


Diapason

2016 novembre

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Martine D. Mergeay

2016 novembre


BBC music magazine

2016 Christmas

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Erik Levi

2016 Christmas

"Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley deliver well-honed interpretations of these masterworks, offering perfect unanimity of ensemble and admirable clarity of texture throughout. The duo is at its best in the three sets of Variations where they manage to encapsulate a wide range of contrasting moods and timbres to impressive effect".


Fono Forum

2016 Dezember

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Carlos Maria Solare

2016 Dezember

"Die Musizierfreude dieses auf beinahe unheimliche Weise eingespielten Duos kommt dennoch ungetrügt rüber".


BBC music magazine

2011 August

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Erik Levi

2011 August

"There are some really outstanding performances throughout the rest of this beautifully recorded set ... these three discs offer compelling and insightful musicianship in a highly competitive field".


BBC music magazine

2019 July

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Michael Church

2019 July

"Chamber choice: This disc is outstanding. With these five works Beethoven created the cello sonata as an art form, and the way Leonard Elschenbroich makes his entry in the first - emerging tentatively from the shadows - underlines the significance of that moment. Alexei Grynyuk ... handles his part ... with delicacy and flexibility, and his articulation throughout this recording is pellucid even at top speed".


Fono Forum

2019 August

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Georg Rudiger

2019 August

"Die beiden liefern eine inspirierte, fantasievolle, im Cello auch mal kratzbürstige Aufnahme von Beethovens fünf Sonaten für Violoncello und Klavier inklusive der transkribierten Hornsonate op. 17, die gerade in der lebendigen Interaktion begeistert. Grynyuks federnder, immer sprechender Anschlag belebt den Klavierpart ... Vor allem aber nutzen die beiden jede Gelegenheit zur Dramatisierung".


Fono Forum

2021 August

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Christoph Vratz

2021 August

"Das Album bietet viel Gutes von runder, warmer Tongebung über arios geschwungene Kantilenen. Doch in die ohnehin gut gefüllte Reihe aufrüttelnder Einspielungen wird man die Produktion nicht zählen können ... Sie alle liefern deutlich mehr Feuer und Risikobereitschaft als Ma-Ax ... Ob Triller, Akzente, Umschwünge, dynamische Extreme - darin bleibt die Aufnahme blass, weil zu freundlich, zu homogen".


BBC music magazine

2021 September

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Helen Wallace (musikanmelder)

2021 September

"Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax made their first Beethoven sonsat recordings back in 1981. Forty years later they return to them, amidst a pandemic ... The readings have a lived-in quality: lively, warm, articulate, spacious and deeply felt on the plus side, a little frayed around the edges and tending towards the baggy on the other ... In fact, turning back again to the 1980s recordings, precision and propriety has given way to something grander, and more fragile".


BBC music magazine

2014 Christmas

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Helen Wallace (musikanmelder)

2014 Christmas

"This superb recording achieves a rare balance between Melnikov's miraculous transparency and Queyras's airy, limpid elegance, and non-vibratoed purity of sound ... I will be savouring these refined readings for a long time".


Opus

2015, nr. 59

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Jörgen Lundmark

2015, nr. 59

"Vurdering: Opus rekommenderar" - "Queyras och Melnikov, med tolkningar som andas helt naturligt, hör definitivt till de allra bästa uttolkarna ... Inspelningen är ypperlig".


Diapason

2014 octobre

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Patrick Szersnovicz

2014 octobre


BBC music magazine

2010 January

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Helen Wallace (musikanmelder)

2010 January

"Their ensemble is almost miraculously tight, seamless and instinctive. The sheer quality of musicianship is up there at the top ... Theirs is a largely old-fashioned full-blooded approach ... Overall, highly impressive".


Diapason

2017 mars

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Martine D. Mergeay

2017 mars


BBC music magazine

2022 July

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Michael Church

2022 July

"Alisa Weilerstein's sound has a generous warmth, and Barnatan's has a delicate malleability, so these players complement each other nicely ... With its rapidly alternating Scherzos and Trios, the A major Sonata presents a particular test which these performers don't fully pass ... but otherwise the rest of this double album is successful, with the seemingly anarchic final sonata emerging in all its rugged intricacy".


Fono Forum

2020 Oktober

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Susanne Benda

2020 Oktober

"Altstaedt/Lonquich ... sind Akteure im Beethoven-Labor, ihre Aufnahme ist ein Experimentierfeld - und manchmal auch eine Abenteuerreise. Der Fokus liegt hier mehr auf Details, auf expressiv ausgestalteten Phrasen, Takten. Einzeltönen ... Aber faszinierend klare Strukturen und Momente, in denen die Instrumentalklänge geradezu auseinander herauszuwachsen scheinen, bieten dafür reichlich Entschädigung".


Diapason

2020 septembre

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Simon Corley

2020 septembre


BBC music magazine

2020 August

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Malcolm Hayes

2020 August

"Beethoven's five cello sonatas make up a satisfying complete set, taking in every main period of his creative life ... Nicolas Altstaedt and his exceptional accompanist, Alexander Longquich, respond to this range of demands with wide and deep resources of musicianship, convincingly enhanced by a period approach ... Highlights in the early sonatas include Altstaedt's whirring highspeed passagework in Op. 5 No. 2's finale, and the seemingly endless musical riches of the middle-period and late sonatas are memorably conveyed at every point".


BBC music magazine

2020 April

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Misha Donat

2020 April

"The brothers Ori and Omri Epstein offer some fine and thoroughly musical performances, marred only by a few puzzling idiosyncrasies. Particularly successful are their graceful performance of the variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' from The Magic Flute, and their intense account of the opening movement of the G minor Sonata, Op. 5 No. 2.The recorded balance between the two instruments is ideal".


Jyllands-posten

d. 2. nov. 2006

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John Christiansen

d. 2. nov. 2006

"De mange stjerner er ikke lokale, men givet i sammenligning med store Beethoven-indspilninger ... Der er en dejlig klarhed over såvel tolkning og udførelse som cd'ens tekniske gengivelse ... Hvert forløb og hver tone virker dybt gennemtænkt, og alligevel er der en musikalsk friskhed, som fanger én".


BBC music magazine

2008 Proms

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Erik Levi

2008 Proms

"A wonderful testament to the exemplary partnership that has developed between cellist Antonio Menese and pianist Menham Pressler over the past decade ... In a crowded field, these fine performances certainly warrant serious consideration. But for a more immediate and incisive musical experience, Pieter Wispelwey and Dejan Lazíc on Cannels Classics offer even greater insight".


Diapason

2015 decembre

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Martine D. Mergeay

2015 decembre


BBC music magazine

2016 February

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Misha Donat

2016 February

"These are really fine, dynamic accounts, with virtuosity appropriately to the fore".


Fono Forum

2016 Februar

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Norbert Hornig

2016 Februar

"Der französische Cellist Xavier Phillips und sein Klavierpartner Francois-Fréderic Guy kommen dem Ideal sehr nahe".


The gramophone

2016 November

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Harriet Smith

2016 November

"Gautier Capuçon and his regular pianist Frank Braley enter a field crowded with stellar performances from the great cellists of today ... But with Beethoven there's alway room for one more interpretation, and the quality of this new set is not in doubt ... It's more traditional in outlook ... but such is the quality of the musicianship that there are always plenty of fresh insights ... Undeniably a class act".


The gramophone

2011 August

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Nalen Anthoni

2011 August

"Vurdering: E (Editor's choice)" - "Enriching performances of Beethoven's complete music for piano and cello ... most enjoyable".


Kristeligt dagblad

d. 10. maj 2004

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The gramophone

2019 June

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Andrew Farach-Colton

2019 June

"Editor's choice: In Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk's hands, these sonatas' staggering invention is impossible to ignore. The musicians' success comes, at least in part, from scrupulous attention to the composer's markings in matters of dynamics and articulation ... They can drive the music hard in fast movements, although their playing always breathes naturally".


The gramophone

2014 November

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David Patrick Stearns

2014 November

"Pianist Alexander Melnikov rewards that primary focus given to him in the variations and the early Op 5 Sonatas with great precision of effect - colour, nuance and expression - that's not often encountered even among the best chamber music players".


International record review

2014 December

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Michael Jameson

2014 December

"Unsurprisingly, there's no shortage of excellent recordings of these works ... Any anxieties over the effectiveness of the partnership between the classically informed Queyras and the noted virtuoso pianism of Melnikov are very quickly disavowed by the formal poise and sobriety of their accounts of the Op. 5 Sonatas ... In sum, this proves to be a deeply rewarding Beethoven cycle from these artists, offering much in the way of novel and unexpected insight".


Berlingske tidende

d. 16. juni 1999

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Jyllands-posten

d. 15. juni 1999

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Kristeligt dagblad

d. 14. juni 1999

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Politiken

d. 29. aug. 1999

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High fidelity (Kbh.)

Årg. 38, nr. 3 (2005)

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Berlingske tidende

d. 6. dec. 2005

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Søren Kassebeer

d. 6. dec. 2005


High fidelity

2001 6

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Berlingske tidende

d. 11. juni 2002

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Kristeligt dagblad

d. 6. maj 2002

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The gramophone

2015 April

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Jed Distler

2015 April

"Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "Terrific performances of the variation sets prove more than merely filler. If you want a HIP counterpart to the Maisky/Argerich cycle, look no further".


Kristeligt dagblad

d. 26. mar. 2001

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Politiken

d. 9. juli 2000

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Jyllands-posten

d. 26. jan. 1999

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The gramophone

2017 February

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Harriet Smith

2017 February

"[These sonatas] have an infectious exuberance. Highlights are many: the opening movement of Op 102 No 1, for instance, which is unerringly paced and nicely balances the muscular and the skittish, and Kirshbaum never less than beautiful in the high-lying writing ... As a whole, this is a more traditional approach to the sonatas ... but if subversion and reinvention are not top priorities, it's well worth exploring".


The gramophone

2022 July

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Richard Bratby

2022 July

"Begin at the end ... this is Beethoven on the cusp of his late style, simultaneously spare and rich, playful and intensely dramatic, and Weilerstein and Barnatan bring out its full strangeness, with Weilerstein's warm but focused tone crisply defining the music's contrapuntal framework even while Barnatan mixes dark, weird harmonies deep in his left hand. Quiet moments quiver with latent energy ... If you like the sound of that, odds are you'll enjoy the rest of this forceful, impulsive and highly characterful cycle ... If you're after a recording that'll blow open the windows of this music and scour away your preconceptions - well, look no further than Weilerstein and Barnatan".


The gramophone

2020 July

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Richard Bratby

2020 July

"Lonquich's fortepiano has a particularly warm and agreeable tone without any lack of attack. Altstaedt's sweet upper register yields before the keyboard's brilliant righthand figuration but his bass notes supply the resonance and depth that the fortepiano can't deliver. In other words, we really do hear the slightly unstable partnership of equals that so engaged Beethoven's imagination ... But that's just the baseline. It's what Altstaedt and Lonquich do with all this sonic potential that fascinates me ... I found this performance utterly compelling".


The gramophone

2020 January

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Richard Bratby

2020 January

"The competition, in short, is impossibly tough, and this new set by Ori and Omri Epstein isn't really in contention ... Ori's cello sound has its attractive aspects ... above all in the great central Adagio of Op 102 No 2, where the piano's boomy bass and the carefully shaped cello phrasing work together to generate an atmosphere that's genuinely compelling ... This approach works better in the three sets of variations, where Omri on piano is more unambiguously in the leading role and tempers his brilliance with playfulness. And I can imagine these interpretations being very enjoyable ... in the concert hall. As a recorded set ... they don't really cut it".


High fidelity (Kbh.)

Årg. 40, nr. 6 (2007)

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Mogens Wenzel Andreasen

Årg. 40, nr. 6 (2007)

"Fremragende! ... Disse indspilninger kan måle sig med det meste andet på det internationale marked".


The gramophone

2008 August

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Rob Cowan (f. 1948)

2008 August

"Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "Between them, Menahem Pressler and Antonio Meneses offer us a rare listening privilege, with playing that is at once intimate, conversational, reposeful, intelligent and, above all, simple in its musical intentions".


The gramophone

2016 January

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Harriet Smith

2016 January

"Vurdering: Recording of the month - Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "One of the finest aspects of this new set is a sense of absolute rightness about each of the tempi chosen ... A wonderful recording of Beethoven's cello and piano music, one which emphasises the equal role of each player, and how the best collaborations raise the music to a level higher still ... It's a recording that brings this sublime music into your living room in the most natural manner possible".



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