BEETHOVEN - Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano • Kavakos, Pace

“…what remains is that he is a fantastically accomplished player. He brings a shining and sweet tone to these works, but also taut muscularity and a sense of overall structure. Looking for a soloist who pauses to revel in a beautiful moment or in the pure beauty of sound? Kavakos isn't your player. He's more interested in delivering the composer's statement, rather like a stage actor. Listen, for example, to the very plain-spoken quality he and Pace bring to the beginning of the Presto movement of the Sonata No. 9 in A Major, op. 47, the ‘Kreutzer’…” (Anastasia Tsioulcas — NPR)