Credits:

Chloe Hanslip & Danny Driver

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Chloe Hanslips New Album Features Metner! Violin Sonata No. 3, Epica!British prodigy Chloe Hanslip plays Metner!From British child prodigy to true genius female violinist.Having found a new home at Hyperion, Chloe Hanslipwhose playing dances with beautyperforms Nikolai Metners (18801951) collection of violin sonatas!Among the three violin sonatas left behind by this great composer of piano works in early 20th-century Russia, the No. 3 Epicasubtitled Epicwas completed in 1938 by Metner, who was deeply shaken by the death of his older brother, Emil, in 1936.Imbued with Metners feelings for his brother, his accumulated compositional experience, and the weight of his life, this late masterpiece is truly worthy of the term epic.Igor Chetuev, who forms a duo with Hanslip, is a talented Ukrainian pianist born in 1980. This Metner recording marks his Hyperion debut.Tokyo M-Plus

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