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Bernard Chasan:
>I happened to hear (on WHRB) the new Naxos recording of this work,
>previously unknown to me, and I was bowled over, as they say. It is a
>work of great beauty and expressiveness - to my ears, endowed with
>a harmonic adventurousness which gave it a kind of urgency. On first
>listening I don't know anything else quite like it. Does anybody out
>there know the work?
Yes, I've been a Suk fan for a long time. The middle movement called Blind
Fiddlers especially I find quite eerily beautiful, but the whole work is
one of his best. There are several other versions of the piece, but the
Naxos coupling, Tale of a Winter's Evening, is, AFAIK, the only available
recording.
Richard Pennycuick
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