Anne-Sophie Mutter: Beethoven – Spring & Kreutzer Sonatas (SACD, FLAC)

Audio CD
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (image+cue)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Size: 256 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: no

# Sonata for violin & piano No. 5 in F major (“Spring”), Op. 24
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

# Sonata for violin & piano No. 9 in A major (“Kreutzer”), Op. 47
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis

Read Tolstoy’s Eponymous Story First

Beethoven is Beethoven and needs no puff from me–nor does Ms Mutter. What prompted me toward a more structured and specific listening of the Kreutzer Sonata was the same name Tolstoy story–I wanted to hear the Beethoven through the lens of Tolstoy’s drama (ignore the mixed metaphor). An interesting way to experience both works, and I’m still working on the results. Give it a try.