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They walked onto the Carnegie Hall stage hand in hand, as they had so often in the past. At first, in the Brahms Sonata in D Minor, they played a little tentatively, feeling their way with care. But by the time they got to Bartok's Sonata No. 1, the violin was soaring with impassioned assurance and the piano was spinning a lacy web of sound. After a fine performance of Beethoven's Sonata in A Major, the two performers joined hands again to take their smiling bows. Occasion: a joint recital of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
...Hephzibah lives in London with her sociologist husband and sometimes goes for weeks without touching the piano ("I don't believe in too much music"). But when she and Yehudi met in Paris for a concert two years ago and first tried the Bartok Sonata, they "sailed right through it; we astonished even ourselves...
...regret my inability to remain for the French portion of the program, the A-major sonata of Faure and the G-minor sonata of Debussy...
Mozart: Piano Music for Four Hands (Ingrid Haebler and Ludwig Hoffmann, pianists; Vox, mono). A two-album collection of six four-hand piano sonatas (plus the Andante and Variations in G Major), the first written when Mozart was 9, the last when he was 31, just before he finished Don Giovanni. The treasures here are the Sonata No. 4 in F Major and the Sonata No. 5 in C Major, Pianists Haebler and Hoffmann play them with leafy serenity, geysering wit, and a crystal touch that never grows hard or metallic...
...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...