eaSonus reviews
R Schumann: Papillons, Op. 2; Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13, etc
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) (eaSonus)
20th Century: American Scene with Tai Murray and Ashley Wass
The opening movement of Copland’s Violin Sonata is dominated by a clipped, recitativo style of writing that eschews big, cumulative gestures and can seem inconsequential. With the American violinist Tai Murray, it is anything but that. Her rosined, folksy tone has you listening as though to a genial conversationalist, the soft-spoken piano of Ashley Wass providing apt, satisfying punctuation.