Not since A Clockwork Orange has Beethoven’s music been imbued with as much primal sexual urgency as in The Kreutzer Sonata (Zeitgeist, $19.93), a present-day transplant of a controversial 19th-century novella by Tolstoy. In the performance montage scenes of the titular sonata, the violin and piano play off each another like generous lovers. The players penetrate one another … [Read more...]