Beethoven violin sonata No. 7 - Valeriy Sokolov, David Fray

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Beethoven violin sonata No. 7
Valeriy Sokolov, violin
David Fray, piano

Excerpt from a live concert on medici.tv, from the Verbier Festival - 18 July 2009

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[proko514]

Yes he does! But he doesn't sound like Gould.

[Tdgonline]

This violinist plays into the strings. Such depth of tone.

[mariusfelix]

@AhimSaah One does not have to blame Paganini or Kreisler to worship Beethoven. Paganini and Kreisler were wonderful Violinists AND composers.

[sorim1967]

The page turner - she is good!

[ladislav57]

@AhimSaah

there is some truth in what you say

[ainhoator]

What the heck! Stop comparing Fray to Gould! I am an absolute fan of Gould's but Fray is quite amazing and still has a lot to give. Not to say that he does not sound like Gould at all (although you can feel the Gould worshipper in him). However, on hearing Gould one can tell it's Gould. On hearing Fray one can't YET tell it's Fray...and I don't know yet whether it is a good or a bad thing.

[dziady1]

This is all engineered sound -there is no clue as to how they would sound

together-dynamics are totally false and you can hear two sound sources .

[rafaschola]

aburiido!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! son unas ostras

[metteholm75]

I wish they would make a recording together some day.

[violinlp96]

ahhh i was at verbier festival!

[heinzgilbert]

He loves that bench,... maybe he is the reincarnation of Gould hahahaha....

[AhimSaah]

This is a very bad interpretation of Beethoven's essencial composition! The violinist look as if he played some shallow Paganini or Kreisler! There are few violinists in the world that can understand Beethoven, because their mind is being constantly fed with cheap violin virtuoso musicthus they never develope a serious attitude for Beethoven. For them it's the same to play Beethoven or Paganini. Beethoven would die in tears if he ever saw Heifetz.