The graphics for this BIS release by American violinist Elena Urioste and British pianist Tom Poster strongly suggest that their partnership is personal as well as musical. And indeed the pair, who met as BBC Young Artists, have a rapport in these romantic (as well as Romantic) little pieces, many of them arranged years ago as encores or intermezzi by the likes of Jascha Heifetz, Leopold Auer, or Nathan Milstein. The players bring a level of focus that keeps the program going through fairly homogeneous material: the tempo ...
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The graphics for this BIS release by American violinist Elena Urioste and British pianist Tom Poster strongly suggest that their partnership is personal as well as musical. And indeed the pair, who met as BBC Young Artists, have a rapport in these romantic (as well as Romantic) little pieces, many of them arranged years ago as encores or intermezzi by the likes of Jascha Heifetz, Leopold Auer, or Nathan Milstein. The players bring a level of focus that keeps the program going through fairly homogeneous material: the tempo doesn't vary from moderate, and the mood is lush. The program leads off with a composition by Fritz Kreisler and an arrangement by him of one of Dvorák's Songs My Mother Taught Me, and Urioste is a Kreisler kind of violinist: not brilliant, but with an appealing rich tone in her middle register that grabs your attention and holds it. The pair mostly offer pieces that would have been part of the violinist's practice book a century ago but were pushed out by modernism. They also play a...
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