Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax, by this point, have little left to prove. Indeed, the pair has recorded Beethoven's complete cello sonatas once before, in the 1980s, with the complete cycle set winning a Grammy Award and becoming one of the standard recordings for these works. Do they have something to add? Nothing revolutionary, but this new set is really a delight, with the kind of mutual understanding born of nearly a half-century of collaboration. Ma and Ax seem to be communicating in a deep way here, at both ...
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax, by this point, have little left to prove. Indeed, the pair has recorded Beethoven's complete cello sonatas once before, in the 1980s, with the complete cycle set winning a Grammy Award and becoming one of the standard recordings for these works. Do they have something to add? Nothing revolutionary, but this new set is really a delight, with the kind of mutual understanding born of nearly a half-century of collaboration. Ma and Ax seem to be communicating in a deep way here, at both large and local levels. The overall mood is indicated by the title, taken from a note Beethoven supposedly attached to a copy of the Cello Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 69, that he sent to a friend. The story may be apocryphal (the note has never been found), but Ax says he wants to believe it, and the performances have a stirring, hopeful impact in the time of coronavirus when they were recorded. In the large structural scale, Ax refers to the contention of scholar Lewis Lockwood that...
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