Emanuel Gruber and Arnon Erez's classic account of Beethoven's music for cello and piano has been remastered for this 2-CD release. The Jerusalem Post called Gruber “one of our great artists” citing “his extraordinary capacity for projecting the deepest meaning of the music”. Gruber was awarded the Pablo Casals prize by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Arnon Erez has been the head of the Chamber Music Department at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University for nearly two decades. With Emanuel Gruber Erez has recorded the complete cello and piano Sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.
Reviews:
"Their recording of Beethoven's sole middle-period cello sonata, the Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69, is unusually effective, bringing out the motivic detail that reveals this work as contemporaneous with the Symphony No. 5 and solving the problem of balance between the cello and piano that plagued Beethoven as he worked on the sonata...The inclusion of Beethoven's three sets of variations for cello and piano is a bonus; many sets of the five sonatas omit these even when there's plenty of room on one disc of a two-disc set." — AllMusic (James Manheim)
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