"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".