Kavakos/Ax – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonThis programme consisting of three of Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano covered a period of six years during which the composer's development was prodigious. Begun in 1797, his first published work in the medium, in D, Op 12 No 1, is ingenious and original, while the later (1802) G major sonata Op 30 No 3 is even more striking. But the leap from that piece to its successor, the so-called "Kreutzer" Sonata, written in 1802-3, is gigantic. It is similar to the distance...

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