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I'm deeply in love with Szgeti and Grumiaux' recordings of Mozart's violin sonatas (Szigeti on Vangaurd Classics, with Horszowski mostly, some with Szell, Grumiaux of course with Clara Haskil, alas noth complete). Then I also think Kagan/Richter are mighty good, but there I've only got four plus a fragmentary one (in the Richter ICON box) - is there more around? But now ... I spent time with the Lumières box again yesterday, also playing the disc with two sonatas played by Chiara Banchini and Temenuschka Vesselinova (rec. 1993). Their discs (three releases, five CDs) are OOP, around on iTunes for ridiculous prices ... not sure I want to hunt these, but I am interested in these pieces, actually in love with a few of them, and it is a bit weird that there are comparatively few recordings around --- and no, I don't need Perlman or Mutter here, possibly Szeryng/Haebler one day, as I like Szeryng's Mozart concertos quite some, but really, Szigeti and Grumiaux are so good, if I buy other recordings, they rather ought to be different and HIP, I guess. So far, what I have is this disc: I've not played it often yet, stumbled over it by accident ... but my impression so far is pretty darn good! They play K 454, K 379/373a and K 296, as well as the variations on "Au bord d'une fontaine" K 360/374b. Just now I was in a store which had the usual suspects there, but also this one, which I bought and plan to play today or tomorrow: This set, rec. 1989 (disc two) and 1990 (disc one) contains on the first CD K 301-305 and on the second K 454, 481 and 526. First impression while perusing the player in the shop was pretty good, too. Anyone has any opinions, favourites, other (including but not necessarily HIP) recordings to recommend?