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Product Description Grammy-nominated violinist Jennifer Koh and virtuoso pianist Shai Wosner play 20th century works by three remarkable Central European composers who intertwine folkloric influences with their own unmistakable originality. The album includes Leos Janacek's Moravian influenced Sonata for violin and piano, B+-la Bartok's impassioned Violin Sonata No. 1, and compelling miniatures by Gyorgy Kurtag, including Tre Pezzi for violin and piano and selections from Signs, Games and Messages. Review Janacek's searching, strangely beautiful Violin Sonata and Bartok's pugnacious, rhapsodic Violin Sonata No. 1 turn up in recordings, but not often in accounts as gripping as these by the probing violinist Jennifer Koh and the dynamic pianist Shai Wosner. In an inventive stroke, this duo plays these formidable works along with a series of ingenious and impish pieces by the Hungarian modernist master Gyorgy Kurtag. A standout new recording. --New York Times Arts Beat, Tommasini