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Tasmin Little

  • Tasmin Little ends British Violin Sonatas series beautifully

    Jul 14th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Chandos, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Eric Coates, James Francis Brown, John Ireland, Piers Lane, Tasmin Little, William Alwyn, Yok Bowen

    This is the final volume of British Violin Sonatas. Tasmin Little and Piers Lane conclude their three-disc series in fine style. The program includes a spectrum of compositional styles, ranging from the serious and introspective to the light-hearted and diverting. The album opens with York Bowen’s majestic Violin Sonata in E minor. Though written in […]

  • Energetic works from early and late Richard Strauss

    Mar 26th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: BBC Symphony Orchestra, CD Review, Chandos, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Julie Price, Michael Collins, Michael Michale, Orchestral music, Richard Straus, Tasmin Little

    This release features a selection of works written at the very beginning, and at the very end of Richard Strauss’ career. In a way, it’s not surprising at the consistency of style in these works. In those later years, Strauss became increasingly nostalgic for those earlier times. A good example is the Duett-Concertino for clarinet […]

  • Tasmin Little Plays a Favorite

    May 29th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Chandos, Classical music, Johannes Brahms, Piers Lane, Romantic period, Tasmin Little

    In a Violin Channel interview, Tasmin Little named Brahms as her favorite composer. I think that affection is evident in this release. There’s an easy familiarity in these performances I find quite appealing. The Violin Sonata No. 1 was developed from two earlier songs by Brahms. The lyrical nature of the material is at the […]

  • Tasmin Little Plays Exceptional Music by Exceptional Women

    Apr 22nd, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Amy Beach, CD Review, Chamber music, Chandos, Clara Schumann, Classical music, Ethel Smyth, Romantic period, Tasmin Little

    Tasmin Little presents a solid program of late-Romantic violin works. As always, her performances let the emotional content of this music blossom forth in beauty. Little has done other outstanding recordings of this repertoire (her Brahms album springs to mind). She seems to have a natural affinity of the late-Romantic style. Oh – and all […]

  • Tasmin Little and Piers Lane – Franck, Szymanowski, Fauré

    Jun 21st, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Cesar Franck, Chamber music, Chandos, Gabriel Fauré, Karol Szymanowski, Piers Lane, Romantic period, Tasmin Little

    In my previous reviews of Tasmin Little/Piers Lane recordings, I remarked on their chemistry, and how that transformed the music. It’s still in effect. Little and Lane perform as equal partners, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. César Franck’s Sonata is given an evocative and yet sometimes understated reading that seems well-suited to the […]

  • Tasmin Little & Roxanna Panufnik – Four World Seasons

    Feb 15th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antonio Vivaldi, Baroque music, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chandos, contemporary classical music, Roxanna Panufnik, SACD, Tasmin Little

    It’s an interesting program, coupling Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” with Roxanna Panufnik’s modern take on the same subject. And it’s one that works very well. The connective thread is the talent of violinist Tasmin Little. Little’s performance of the “Four Seasons” with the BBC Symphony Orchestra is a spirited one. Her solo work is beautifully crafted […]

  • Tasmin Little – British Violin Sonatas Vol. 2

    Aug 31st, 2016 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Arthur Bliss, CD Review, Chamber music, Chandos, contemporary classical music, Frank Bridge, John Ireland, Piers Lane, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Tasmin Little, William Lloyd Webber

    You don’t have to be Czech to play Dvorak, Spanish to play Rodrigo, nor British to play Vaughan Williams. And yet an artist who shares the composer’s nationality often brings a deeper understanding to the music, a certain authenticity to the performances. That thought occurred to me as I listened to British Violin Sonatas, Volume […]

  • Tasmin Little – British Violin Sonatas

    Aug 10th, 2013 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Benjamin Britte, CD Review, Chamber music, Chandos, Classical music, Howard Ferguson, Piers Lane, Tasmin Little, William Walton

    Tasmin Little’s off to a great start with her survey of British violin sonatas. Volume One features Howard Ferguson’s quintessentially British Violin Sonata No. 2, Benjamin Britten’s cosmopolitan Suite for Violin and Piano, and three works by William Walton that fall stylistically somewhere between. Tasmin Little plays them all with an expressive yet precise manner, […]

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