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Product Identifiers

Record LabelSony Masterworks, Synx

UPC0194397017120

eBay Product ID (ePID)6046047954

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2020

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistBeethoven / Francescatti / Casadesus

Release TitleBeethoven Sonatas

Dimensions

Item Height0.87 in

Item Weight0.49 lb

Item Length5.28 in

Item Width5.11 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs7

Number of Tracks17

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9, op. 47 “Kreutzer” (Remastered) 1.2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1, op. 12/1 (Remastered) 2.1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 3, op. 12/3 (Remastered) 2.2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4, op. 23 (Remastered) 2.3 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5, op. 24 “Spring” (Remastered) 3.1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 2, op. 12/2 (Remastered) 3.2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 6, op. 30/1 (Remastered) 3.3 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8, op. 30/3 (Remastered) 4.1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7, op. 30/2 (Remastered) 4.2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10, op. 96 (Remastered) 5.1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 3, op. 12/3 (Remastered) [1950 recording] 5.2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4, op. 23 (Remastered) [1950 recording] 5.3 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9, op. 47 “Kreutzer” (Remastered) [1949 recording] 6.1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7, op. 30/2 (Remastered) [1953 recording] 6.2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8, op. 30/3 (Remastered) [1953 recording] 7.1 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5, op. 24 “Spring” (First Release) (TBC) 7.2 Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 6, op. 30/1 (First Release) (TBC)

NotesThese two patrician French musicians were leading lights at American Columbia from the 1940s until well into the 1960s. During World War II, violinist Zino Francescatti and pianist Robert Casadesus began performing as a duo (they were both also collaborators with Ravel early in the careers), and in the decades since then the Columbia/Sony catalogue has documented this partnership distinguished by interpretive grace and technical Polish. Although Francescatti is probably best remembered for his wide-ranging concerto recordings with Bernstein, Ormandy and Bruno Walter and Casadesus for his sparkling Mozart concertos with Szell, their duo recordings were also greatly admired by music lovers, especially their landmark interpretations of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas. The first of these recordings - made in mono between 1949 and 1957 in New York, when both musicians were living in the US - comprised Nos. 3-9. A remake, this time the complete cycle, was recorded in stereo in Paris in 1958 and 1961. Now Sony Classical is reissuing all of these performances in a single 7-album set.