Beethoven - The Violin Sonatas
2002
World renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who has made an artistic mission out of interpreting Beethoven, is captured performing some of her best renditions of his violin sonatas. Mutter beautifully and lovingly performs all 5 sonatas here. She is accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis. Read more
| Starring | Anne-Sophie Mutter |
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| Genres | Music/Musical |
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Great for violin lovers and Mutter fans
This DVD contains Beethoven's violin sonatas no 5 (Spring) and no 9 (Kreutzer), played by Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) and Lambert Orkis (piano), plus a documentary film about Mutter's life with Beethoven.
The playing is excellent, expressive and quite beautiful (although I'm no violin expert). The audio recording is high quality with a quiet background and well placed instruments - to my ear the violin is recorded better than the piano (I've heard more accurate piano renderings on good piano solo CDs, but piano is a very difficult instrument to get right, and perhaps it's fitting that the violin should take precedence on a recording like this).
The documentary is interesting, especially the parts that show how Mutter and Orkis work together.
I'd recommend this disc to anyone who's interested in violin or piano. -
"she dosnt smile much"
I loved this dvd, but found it annoying in so much as you couldnt turn it on and leave it to play, instead you had to choose each sonata individually.
We often will play music in the background on our T.V and the lack of a 'play all'option, meant this was no good for this function.
My daughters only comment about the music was that Anne-Sophie Mutte didnt smile, as my daughters teacher is encouraging all performances to end with a smile, it was fitting that her comment was as such, as indeed sadly Anne - Sophie dosnt seem to smile much in this performance.
Violin playing was fantastic, and beautifully performed, and dispite the problems with having to constantly chose which peices we wanted to hear, it was well worth the effort.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Great for violin lovers and Mutter fans
This DVD contains Beethoven's violin sonatas no 5 (Spring) and no 9 (Kreutzer), played by Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) and Lambert Orkis (piano), plus a documentary film about Mutter's life with Beethoven.
The playing is excellent, expressive and quite beautiful (although I'm no violin expert). The audio recording is high quality with a quiet background and well placed instruments - to my ear the violin is recorded better than the piano (I've heard more accurate piano renderings on good piano solo CDs, but piano is a very difficult instrument to get right, and perhaps it's fitting that the violin should take precedence on a recording like this).
The documentary is interesting, especially the parts that show how Mutter and Orkis work together.
I'd recommend this disc to anyone who's interested in violin or piano. -
"she dosnt smile much"
I loved this dvd, but found it annoying in so much as you couldnt turn it on and leave it to play, instead you had to choose each sonata individually.
We often will play music in the background on our T.V and the lack of a 'play all'option, meant this was no good for this function.
My daughters only comment about the music was that Anne-Sophie Mutte didnt smile, as my daughters teacher is encouraging all performances to end with a smile, it was fitting that her comment was as such, as indeed sadly Anne - Sophie dosnt seem to smile much in this performance.
Violin playing was fantastic, and beautifully performed, and dispite the problems with having to constantly chose which peices we wanted to hear, it was well worth the effort.
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Beethoven - The Violin Sonatas
World renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who has made an artistic mission out of interpreting Beethoven, is captured performing some of her best renditions of his violin sonatas. Mutter beautifully and lovingly performs all 5 sonatas here. She is accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis....
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