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Steven Isserlis, Robert Levin - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas (2014)

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Steven Isserlis, Robert Levin - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas (2014)

Steven Isserlis, Robert Levin - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas (2014)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67981

In this new chamber recording, Steven Isserlis together with his regular collaborator, fortepianist Robert Levin, presents a magisterial and long-awaited compendium of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano, including Beethoven’s arrangement of his Op 17 Horn Sonata. The use of the fortepiano opens up a wealth of sonic possibilities for these works.

The five Cello Sonatas span Beethoven’s compositional epochs and comprise the most important cycle of cello sonatas in the entire repertoire. Isserlis writes that the composer ‘transforms himself from confident virtuoso to supreme master of classical form, and then beyond that to a mystic exploring strange new worlds of unearthly beauty—a wondrous transfiguration’.

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Steven Isserlis, Robert Levin

Reviews: This set contains some of the finest Beethoven performances you are likely to hear. Steven Isserlis is on blazing form: every note lives, every movement is characterised with infectious relish; his range is breathtaking. The ensemble with Robert Levin is dynamic, intimate, often electric. There’s a sense of two powerful minds intensely engaged in Beethoven's dialogue, even though Levin is restricted by his replica 1805 Walter & Sohn fortepiano.

At its best, it’s unbeatable: highlights include a crazily impetuous finale to the Sonata Op 5 No. 1; Sonata Op 5 No 2’s limping introduction; a radiant opening to Op 69 which ends in an Allegro vivace of festive fire; the dreamy wildness of Op 102 No. Is ‘improvised’ slow movement and a Op 102 No 2 of tragic violence.

The fortepiano comes into its own in the delightful sets of Magic Flute Variations. And in the Op 69 Scherzo, Levin repeats the cross-bar tied notes as Beethoven indicated, an effect that would be too emphatic on the piano. When the texture is open and linear, the blend of sounds is finely balanced, but when it thickens it’s strained and tinny. In the cello’s volcanic passages in the first Allegro of Op 69 we miss the piano’s underpinning depth. The accompanying figures in the Allegro of Op 5 No 1 chug murkily, in contrast to Isserlis’s elegance. Sometimes Levin doesn’t quite match Isserlis’s vitality, particularly in the finale of the Op 102 No 1.

The slow, descending scales that open the G minor expose the instrument’s tonal rawness; one yearns for the luminous touch of András Schiff (ECM), and he and Miklós Pérenyi’s faster, clearer fugue in Op 102 No 2—here it’s rhythmically elastic but very noisy.

There isn’t a better version with fortepiano, but for those who prefer the piano, this will take some getting used to.

Tracklisting:

CD01

01 - Cello Sonata In F, Op. 5,1 - 1. Adagio Sostenuto
02 - Cello Sonata In F, Op. 5,1 - 2. Allegro
03 - Cello Sonata In F, Op. 5,1 - 3. Allegro Vivace
04 - Cello Sonata In G Minor, Op. 5,2 - 1. Adagio Sostenuto & Espressivo
05 - Cello Sonata In G Minor, Op. 5,2 - 2. Allegro Molto Più Tosto Presto
06 - Cello Sonata In G Minor, Op. 5,2 - 3. Rondo- Allegro
07 - Cello Sonata In A, Op. 69 - 1. Allegro, Ma Non Tanto
08 - Cello Sonata In A, Op. 69 - 2. Scherzo- Allegro Molto
09 - Cello Sonata In A, Op. 69 - 3. Adagio Cantabile
10 - Cello Sonata In A, Op. 69 - 4. Allegro Vivace

CD02

11 - Cello Sonata In C, Op. 102,1 - 1. Andante
12 - Cello Sonata In C, Op. 102,1 - 2. Allegro Vivace
13 - Cello Sonata In C, Op. 102,1 - 3. Adagio; Tempo D'Andante
14 - Cello Sonata In C, Op. 102,1 - 4. Allegro Vivace
15 - Cello Sonata In D, Op. 102,2 - 1. Allegro Con Brio
16 - Cello Sonata In D, Op. 102,2 - 2. Adagio Con Molto Sentimento D'Affetto
17 - Cello Sonata In D, Op. 102,2 - 3. Allegro; Allegro Fugato
18 - Variations In G On See The Conqu'ring Hero Comes, WoO 45
19 - Variations In F On Ein Mädchen Oder Weibchen, Op. 66
20 - Variations In E Flat On Bei Männern, Welche Liebe Fühlen, WoO 46
21 - Horn Sonata In F, Op. 17 - 1. Allegro Moderato
22 - Horn Sonata In F, Op. 17 - 2. Poco Adagio, Quasi Andante
23 - Horn Sonata In F, Op. 17 - 3. Rondo- Allegro Moderato

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