Media Type: VINYL x1
Performer: Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano and Violin Nos. 5 & 9 – Lew Oborin and David Oistrach
Genre: Classical
Label: Philips

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At first sight Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas appear to occupy only a subordinate role when placed alongside his great symphonic works and the piano sonatas. While the earlier works in the genre were viewed in their time with scepticism due to the “rare difficulty” and “learnedness” of their piano part, the later sonatas however display an increasingly marked independence of the violin part. For this reason, the A major Violin Sonata (which was dedicated to the French violinist Rodolph Kreutzer), and the so-called

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