Rodolphe Kreutzer is not a name that'll leap out from a compendium of the great composers. Yet the 'Kreutzer Sonata' is one of the most significant creations in the classical canon. It's Beethoven's ...
Two approaches to Beethoven's sonatas which could not be more strongly contrasted: Kurosaki is well known as a period-instrument orchestral leader, while Dusinberre is the leader of the Takács Quartet ...
It opens like a Bach solo, unfolds like a symphony, and finally sweeps all before it with titanic power: Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata is one of the miracles of the repertory (as Tolstoy's homage ...