Beethoven, Ludwig van - Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello - Perényi, Miklós (cello)
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICEMIDEM Classical Award, Chamber Music category
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Jahrespreis
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Bestenliste 4/2004
Fono Forum, Empfehlung des Monats
Stereophile, Recording of the month
Gramofon (Hungary), Klassisches Album des JahresTwo master musicians explore Beethoven's output for cello and piano: six sonatas and three sets of variations. They span Beethoven's career and make for a fascinating and rewarding musical journey in a relatively compact way. Perényi and Schiff bring many years of practical experience to bear and it shows in every bar. A masterly survey.
James Jolly, Gramophone
"Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello show in a nutshell the same evolution that the 32 piano sonatas show," said András Schiff recently. "You have this wonderful young lion Beethoven in the opus 5 sonatas, you have the opus 69, the A major, which stands in the middle of his life, and then you have these wonderful two works, opus 102, which are at the gates of the late style, the last phase. And these are in a way experimental works, but fully crystallized."
Superbly played by Schiff and Miklós Perényi, these may be the definitive recordings of Beethoven's music for piano and cello.
András Schiff, piano
Miklós Perényi, violoncello
Recorded December 2001 and August 2002