[ Bartok: Violin Sonatas Tetzlaff/Andsnes ]

Evening Standard - London (July 16, 2004)

Author: Stephen Pettitt

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Bartok: Violin Sonatas Tetzlaff/Andsnes

BARTOK'S two Sonatas for violin and piano, composed in 1921-22, come from his most adventurous phase. The language combines expressionistic freedom with something of Debussy's impressionism and the idiosyncratic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic inflections of Hungarian folk music.

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[ Bartok: Violin Sonatas Tetzlaff/Andsnes ]

The first sonata is spacious a...

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