Customer Review: It's beyond words. My feelings about this extraordinary artist are impossible to quantify. I would have an easier time describing the most beautiful sunset that I have ever seen. All I can say, is that this DVD slays what is left of my rendered humble heart.
Customer Review: Brahms wrote the greatest romantic violin concerto. Szeryng and Monteux understood it. Perlman and Guilini understood it. But neither Hahn nor her conductor understand it. The Stravinsky, on the other hand, is very good for three of the four movements. However, the third movement drags as if... more info
Customer Review: In this recording, as in others, Hilary has thought the music through and takes her own unique approach to it. This Paganini concerto is as potentially flashy as anything ever written for the instrument. but Hilary looks beyond the flash and concentrates on the musicality. Looking over the reviews... more info
Customer Review: Mozart's Violin Sonatas of Hahn is too clean instead of the unpleasantness of Anne-Sophie Mutter, and there is no fault but no fun in Hahn's Mozart. I think that it is not more than the average point, though played well in K. 304 and with a rise in K. 526. It is easier to listen more than Szeryng... more info
Customer Review: I returned this item for an exchange, since many of the pages were printed upside down, on 5/27 after following the directions for a return/replacement. It is now 7/09 and I am still waiting for a replacement. I have written twice to the dealer as well as to Amazon including one yesterday. I am... more info
Customer Review: Beethoven of Hahn and Zinman: I think the violin concerto by them is to be able to say the following, compared with the concerto of Beethoven played by Mutter with Karajan to whom the age parts in the grandchild and the grandfather when Mutter was in her teens, Mutter's performance was only... more info
Customer Review: I have in the past thought of Shostakovich in terms of barbed wire, tanks, and icy winters. This, until the orchestra in which I play viola, performed his 5th Symphony. I was overwhelmed by the power of it, and by the deep sadness I felt in it, in parts. With this in mind, I re-visited other works... more info
Customer Review: I love Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, even Mahler. But anything beyond that, well, to me it has been just noise. However, Alex Ross's book has helped me to listen in a different way. It takes a long time to work through this book because when Ross talks about this or that composer, this or that piece, I... more info
Customer Review: Yes, it's quite a claim. And yes, there's lots of room for argument. But, being an aficionado of Bach, classical violin, and JSB's violin concertos in particular, I'm willing to put my nickel down on Ms. Mutter's recording, especially of the A minor concerto. From the opening notes, the piece... more info
