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Site review by Polly Nomial February 17, 2012
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Performance: Sonics (MC): |
Another enterprising release from 2L, coupling 2 cello sonatas with the first recording of the horn sonata to be issued on SACD.
Another first (for the cello sonatas) is that this disc is played on period instruments and so is competing in a different way to Beethoven: Complete Sonatas & Variations - Wispelwey/Lazic for our attention. In Op. 5/2, all goes well and one might argue that the inclusion of all repeats counts in favour Fossheim and Solum when Wispelwey and Lazic do not. The playing of Nilson in the horn sonata is heroic and has no little virtuosity.
It is sad to report then that, in the late cello sonata Op.102/1, the intonation of Solum is sadly wayward all too often in the many taxing passages of the concluding Allegro vivace. By contrast Wispelwey absolutely nails these same passages; both he and Lazic are a good deal more characterful and show greater insight in both this and the earlier sonata.
The recording is up to 2L's usual house standard and the performers are placed in a conventional concert hall arrangement.
Sadly not recommended for all the potential that could have been fulfilled.
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