Fanny Clamagirand on Beethoven’s violin sonatas: ‘This music is so rich, so intense, so complex’

The most famous of Beethoven’s violin sonatas have nicknames. The Spring is named for its air of pastoral ease – although that choice of name had nothing to do with the composer. The Kreutzer got its nickname because of its dedication to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a famous French player who never performed the work; Beethoven had fallen out with George Bridgetower, the British violinist for whom he had written the piece.

Saitkoulov talks about the “many wonderful players” who played and recorded this repertoire, and highlights the violinists David Oistrakh, Henryk Szeryng and Joseph Szigeti. But he laments the lack of a set involving a violinist who is “a true Beethoven interpreter of standing, someone like Schnabel.”Gabor Maté: I began to notice that the people who got chronically ill had trouble saying ‘no’

He talks enthusiastically about the radical Russian pianist Maria Yudina, who took a strongly anti-establishment, pro-avant-garde stance in the Soviet Union, and the Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer, whose master classes were attended by Alfred Brendel and Daniel Barenboim. One of the orchestral Beethoven interpreters he rates highly is the Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg, who recorded Beethoven with Amsterdam’s? “One of my pianos is a Bechstein from 1919,” he says.

They may, he says, even have to work through “completely opposed ways of articulating”, or seek out a way of “going logically from one part to the other and somehow find the harmony and the conflict at the same time, which is so characteristic of Beethoven’s writing”.

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