Stephen Pritchard 

Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow: The Jazz Age for Piano Duo – review

Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow breathe new life into some jaunty, jazzy sonatas, writes Stephen Pritchard
  
  


You're no doubt familiar with George Gershwin, but Edward Burlingame Hill? Alexander Moyzes? No, me neither, but their jaunty, jazzy studies and sonatas get a new lease of life in this engaging selection from the husband-and-wife duo Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow. Mátyás Seiber's hilarious tangos and foxtrots will put a spring in your step, while you can melt over Percy Grainger's (yes!) arrangement of Gershwin's "Embraceable You". All great fun but recorded in the echoey, sepulchral acoustic of a church, which pours some pretty cold water over some very hot music.

 

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