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Title: Missing notes
Review: I like Harrell and Ashkenazy's playing of the sonatas. The 1 star is because the recording of the Rondo finale of the G minor sonata (8:12) is missing the first note and part of the duration of the second note at the very beginning. It's hard to imagine these seasoned veterans re-interpreting a well known work like this (and I have heard many other recordings as well as seen the score), so the only explanation is that someone bungled while editing the recording and cut off the 0.5 seconds of music at the start of the finale. This appears to be true of both the CD and mp3 versions. I had a hard time explaining this to the Amazon customer service representative, so I just paid $1 and bought the same track played my Emmanuel Ax and Yo Yo Ma (which thankfully is not missing this imperfection) - a bit of a band-aid fix. So, if you're a perfectionist, beware!Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Cello.
