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    Dec 22, 2021 4 minutes

    Asger Baden If the Music Stops They’ll Eat Him Up

    Asger Baden (piano, electronics) Neue Meister 0302077NM

    There’s a delicious ambiguity about this solo effort from the Danish composerpianist. It’s a rich and complex soundworld of piano, percussive effects, strings and synths but with an improvisational quality. Baden paints with sound, and the pictures are immersive and sometimes unsettling. (MB) HHH

    Bartók Violin Sonatas etc

    Franziska Pietsch (violin), Maki Hayashida (piano) Odradek ODRCD419

    Pietsch and Hayashida are uncompromising in their approach to the pair of sonatas. The works’ jagged edges and silken curves are expertly navigated, while the shorter folk dances afford the listener several

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