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Following Sinfonia Viva"s chamber-music concert a couple of weeks ago, a body of string players returned to Derby"s temporary Market Place venue for a programme mixed in style but with a discernable folk music thread – Derby, UK, 21 October 2021. This was most obvious in the opener, Bartók"s Romanian Dances, based on fiddle tunes he collected. The first two were taken at a steady tempo; leader Sophie Rosa gave the third dance"s high-lying violin solo an aptly fragile-sounding character; nuances of dynamics in No 4 were nicely shaded, and the quick final two dances had real bite...
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