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BBC Music Magazine Reviews "Beethoven: Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano" |
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2008
Another rewarding partnership is that of Suren Bagratuni and Ralph Votapek. In their complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas and variations, Votapek’s crisp pianism perfectly complements Bagratuni’s clean, generous tone. Their approach is deft to every Beethovenian nuance, all three sets of variations particularly genial. It is easy to make the Op.5 Sonatas overblown, but the duo are united in a quest for clarity. Perhaps the earliest sonatas need a more visceral charge; but, some pinched tone aside, Op.69 is wonderful and the late sonatas conspicuously probing. Recommended.
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