Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin Op.23 & Op.30 no.2

"Fortunately, the players don't seem in the least bit fazed by the accumulated layers of musical history, and they give admirably dramatic performances, with all the urgency and passion Beethoven's two minor-key violin sonatas demand."
***** performance/***** sound
BBC Music Magazine

At the turn of the 19th century, Prince Lichnowsky made Beethoven a handsome gift: a set of four string quartet instruments, which the 30-year-old composer immediately marked with his seal and a large carved 'B'. One of them was a violin made in Salzburg around 1700. Rediscovered and authenticated in 1995 by the experts of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, this unexpected legacy is here presented for the first time in a wholly appropriate recording project: Sonatas nos.4 and 7, the very embodiment of Beethovenian élan terrible, are performed by two outstanding artists!