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In a programme ranging from Bach to Aaron Copland he played with power and authority and a magnificently full and accurate tone. He certainly did justice to the 1731 Guarneri violin which he plays, lent to him by the Austrian National Bank. And Francois du Toit contributed greatly at the keyboard. These are not works for violin accompanied by the piano. They were written for violin\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0piano, with the latter playing almost as important a role as the former.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aaron Copland\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sonata for Violin and Piano<\/em>\u00a0was new to me. Written about 60 years ago, it is still essentially \u201cmodern\u201d in idiom but, like most of Copland\u2019s music, it is quite accessible to ears hearing it for the first time. Dedicated to a friend who was killed while on service in the Second World War, it is serious music, with a degree of anguish, but it is not depressingly mournful. 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