Ivry Gitlis & Martha Argerich - Franck Violin Sonata in A Major 

This is how all music should be played - not from the page but from the heart and soul. A quote from the violinist: Dear young colleagues of the up-and-coming generation, Please have the courage to be yourselves, to take risks and not be copies of your recordings or of others'. Practice your instrument in order to free yourself from any psycho-technical constraint, to be able to create when you play. Listen to your inner ear, which is connected directly to your heart and spirit, the one that tells you what you feel is you! And the one you don't feel isn't you. Remember that a beautiful "wrong" note by a Kreisler, a Thibaud, a Casals or a Callas is worth more than a thousand so-called "right" notes and that playing that is hygienically and clinically correct is not necessarily a sign of good health! Take heart! Good health to you! Ivry Gitlis - January 2007

Wow ..! Bravo!

Their performance's splendor of words can not arrive The beauty of their performance is unrivaled, indescribable and outclassing

wow, like a flying arrow striaght into the heart# bravo

One of my favourite recordings ever made... Inspired idiosyncratic playing from both at the height of their powers

Love it or hate it. I love it.

It's so terrible. They play so wonderfully and then suddenly Interruption because advertisment. And just randomly while the music is playing. No respect, horrible. I will try to get the CD.

Gypsy in the best sense .

This (violin) is dreadful. His phrasing. Dynamics. Timing. Maverick rubato. Style of playing ill-suited to the work. Lacks discipline. Tone tinny. Yet this was his chosen approach. Piano fine! Compare with Kyung Wha Chung/Radu Lupu, which in my personal view is the finest recording of this work ever made (and I've listened to many), both violin and piano absolutely extraordinary.

Such a shame that the enchanting piano playing is marred by the dreadful violin playing......