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Atsuko Sawara

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The first release on the new label BRAVO RecordsA live recording of clear-sighted intelligence and fresh, vivid feelingPoulenc’s Violin Sonata from Atsuko Sahara and Takehiko YamadaThe first release on the new label BRAVO Records is a live recording by the violinist Atsuko Sahara and the pianist Takehiko Yamada. Alongside well-known works by Poulenc and Beethoven, it includes unaccompanied music by the Dutch composer Julius Rntgen, a composer Sahara has explored over many years.”This is the eagerly awaited new recording from Atsuko Sahara, one of Japan’s finest violinists: a player of assured technique and of an exhilarating forward drive that keeps the music continually rising. Joining her in the Poulenc, full of esprit, and in that supreme masterpiece the Beethoven sonata, I shared in her startling sharpness and rich musicianship, and played with a real sense of happiness. And then the inten