The 2020 release coincided with the planned retirement of violinist Tasmin Little from concert performances; whether she planned to stop recording as well is not clear. It also concludes a three-volume series of mostly unfamiliar violin sonatas by Little and pianist Piers Lane. The series has contained several gems, but from the evidence here, Little has saved the best for last, and she plays them with a conviction and precision that exceed even her usual high standard. There are two larger works, the imposing Violin Sonata ...
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The 2020 release coincided with the planned retirement of violinist Tasmin Little from concert performances; whether she planned to stop recording as well is not clear. It also concludes a three-volume series of mostly unfamiliar violin sonatas by Little and pianist Piers Lane. The series has contained several gems, but from the evidence here, Little has saved the best for last, and she plays them with a conviction and precision that exceed even her usual high standard. There are two larger works, the imposing Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 112, of York Bowen and the Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor of John Ireland, something of an emotional maelstrom. Sample as well the smaller pieces: the evocative The Hart's Grace by the all-but-unknown James Francis Brown and a sprightly early Sonatina in C major by the young William Alwyn, who disavowed the work. As so often happens with composers, he was wrong. Things settle down with the final First Meeting by Eric Coates, in a version for violin and piano (the...
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