180 gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl 3 LP Box Set !

Mastered From Original Analogue Masters Of Universal Music !

Audiophile Analog Mastering By Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios !

Pressed at Pallas !

The complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas, recorded between 1955 and 1957 with Carlo Zecchi, adopts a much more universal approach than the Bach Suites. A noble statue of Beethoven is sculpted by the careful bowing of the cel-list. The technique is sharply executed, but the image created is restrained and serene. A Beethoven with such profound magnanimity and true humanity is not often heard today. Although a monaural recording, as with the Bach, the session recorded at Beethovensaal in Hanover benefits from the good mike setting, which vividly cap-tures the air movements of the recording venue and even the friction at the moment of bowing. It is a valuable record of the cellist who has reached his full maturity in his late 50s.

Recorded October 17-20, 1955 (LP 1), May 27-30, 2956 (LP 2), January 6-10, 1957 (LP 3) at Beethovensaal, Hanover, Germany.