 | Franck - Sonata for violin and piano · Debussy - Sonatas · Ravel - Introduction and Allegro / Chung · Lupu · Ellis · Melos Ensemble by Cesar Franck
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.06 Restrained but fluent for Franck's sonata. Ravel's piece is a bonus. For bolder performance, seek Sarah Chang's new EMI recording
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![Mozart: 4 Sonaten für Klavier und Violine [Australia]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416QRXYMW3L._SL75_.jpg) | Mozart: 4 Sonaten für Klavier und Violine [Australia]
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $13.42 Collaboration of two greatest Mozart performer. You only wonder where to find such purity in real world.
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 | Brahms: Complete Trios
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $13.69 Beautiful piano trios: reserved and brooding. Grumiaux's performance in Horn trio is gorgeous too, the highlight of the set. For smoother (or sweeter) melodies, seek Dumay, Pires and Jian Wang's DG recording.
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 | Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Borodin: Quartets by Emerson String Quartet
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.25 Live and energetic, fluent and melodious.
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 | Beethoven: Late Quartets, etc / Busch Quartet by The Busch Quartet
Buy new: $50.98 / Used from: $35.82 For late performance, Busch Quartet shines through decades with roaring spirit. For a better sound-quality and smoother performance, seek Takacs. While Takacs is as good as these historical set, it is a little bit too well-rounded.
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 | Beethoven: String Quartets by Takacs Quartet
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $11.05 The best middle section available. Its dynamic, color and passion rivals, if not surpass, performance by all other great quartets. Great recording too.
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 | Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956 by Franz Schubert
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.93 No words is needed for the great performance of this great piece, a greatest height that few has reached.
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 | Haydn: The Emperor, Fifths and Sunrise Quartets
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.95 Among a dozen of great performance, this one is mid-priced.
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 | Dvorak: "Dumky" Trio / Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1
Buy used from: $3.98 It has the magic to infatuate everyone. For a little bit different taste, try the performance led by Suk
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 | Ludwig van Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Violin - Wilhelm Kempff / Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Buy used from: $31.33 Not easy to find and not even the best sound quality. Somehow mono recording makes the listening experience of chamber music closer to the performance. Simplily put: it has less grease than some in later recording
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 | Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $14.71 It is great that this out of print set is reissued at mid-price from DGG. It is true that the set from Rostropovich by Philipps has better sound. But this one is extremely charming with Gulda personalized humor. The collobation results an almost intoxicating Op. 69.
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 | Bach: Complete Flute Sonatas; Complete Viola da Gamba Sonatas
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $5.41 Clarity and effortlessness defines this great performance. I have never been tired of listening to it. Mid-price is a plus
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 | Brahms: Klavierquintett Op. 34
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $5.43 The second movement is almost Schubertarian, one of the most beautiful pieces for piano quintets
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 | Brahms: The Violin Sonatas by Sulius Katchen
Buy used from: $5.39 Suk is underappreciated nowadays. His brahms violin sonatas with Katchen is treasured performance. Their trio is good too if you can find.
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