The young British violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is rapidly making a name as an interpreter of contemporary and less familiar repertoire – especially chamber music. She and the pianist-composer Huw Watkins have created an intelligent recital disc from the contrasting music of the Polish Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) and the Venezuelan-French Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947): composers who probably never met but who sprang from a sound world owing a great debt to the music of César Franck and in particular his masterly violin sonata. The album comprises a sonata each by Szymanowski, impassioned and romantic, and Hahn, subtly Gallic and lyrical, as well as shorter works, all played with verve and style.
