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...real surprise here is the cadenzas by Alfred Schnittke, a contemporary Soviet composer championed by Kremer. Schnittke's adventurous interludes are a modern commentary on Beethoven's themes and provide a welcome, if at first startling, respite from the usual cadenzas by Joseph Joachim and Fritz Kreisler. This is avant-garde Beethoven with a vengeance that causes the listener to sit up and pay attention to the music. It's about time. -By Michael Walsh
...some of the Kreisler compositions, Mintz's heavy style works. The Russian's Zigeuner-Capriccio (Gypsy caprice) sounds Bohemian, with good articulation and flashy slides. Mintz knows--or so it is said--what it is like to wake up and forget that he is not in his own bed. On the other hand, the recording of Kreisler's arrangement of the Albeniz Tango is no reason to get the butter. Mintz plays it as oversentimentally as the Glasunow...
...piece that sounds American--Kreisler's Syncopation--sounds like Scott Joplin's "Ragtime." Mintz plays it well, but exerts too much pressure in spots...
...would have liked to hear Praeludium and Allegro (written in the style of Pugnani), Schon rosmarin or the cadenz to the Beethoven Concerto instead of the numerous Kreisler arrangements of other composers' works. The other pieces on the record are not worth the time or money. Any performance of Kreisler pieces (except Eugene Fodor on RCA Red Seal, 1977), will capture the flavor of this sentimentalist. Perlman plays a great Praeludium and Allegro...
...although Kreisler became the richest musician ever performing his pieces, it is unlikely Mintz will do the same...