Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas – review

Seiler/van Immerseel(Zig-Zag Territoires – three CDs)Though not quite as compelling as the recent sets from Renaud Capucon and Frank Braley on Virgin, and Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov (Harmonia Mundi), these performances of Beethoven's violin sonatas by Midori Seiler and Jos van Immerseel are persuasively stylish. Seiler plays a gut-strung 18th-century violin while van Immerseel plays a modern copy of a piano made by Anton Walter in Vienna at the end of the 18th century; Beethoven is ...

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