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Pretoria News

By Riek Van Rensburg
Pretoria – There was no doubting Wolfgang David’s sensitivity, range of colours, beauty of tone and neat phrasing.  Francois du Toit at the piano gave neat-fingered and stylish support.
The seldom heard Sonate for Violin and Piano by Copland was presented with a natural flow and, mercifully, not with an over-projected eloquence.
The musicians honoured the lush Richard Strauss sonata in its full panoply of mood and sound.
Highlight of this recital, had David in solo capacity.  An effortless virtuosity prevailed in J.S.Bach’s Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004.  Yet there was nothing bland, mechanical or mannered in his interpretation.
David relished the music at every turn in Wieniawski’s Fantasia on Gounod’s Faust.  Both musicians responded gleefully to the kick of the rhythms and the sudden swerves of mood.