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The Second Piano Trio is an elegiac sketch of a mercurial personality, delivered with fleet changes of emotion
Seong-Jin Cho’s celebratory concert, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, bodes well for the future
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Vladimir Ashkenazy’s varied recital starts out with Mazurkas and Preludes, and progresses to the late ‘Poèmes’
Ashkenazy is a no-nonsense interpreter; his performances are crisp and clear and capture the freshness of the music
A bracing aperitif of music by John Zorn preceded a nicely judged pairing of Britten and Shostakovich
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