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MUSIC REVIEW

Lively works from the Weilerstein Duo

By Jeffrey Gantz

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 26, 2012

It takes courage to offer a program of music for violin and piano by Francis Poulenc, Charles Ives, and George Enescu, as the Weilerstein Duo - violinist Donald Weilerstein and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein - did in their free concert at Jordan Hall Monday evening. And greater courage still to choose works born in bleak times. Ives’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 was composed during World War I, Enescu’s “Impressions d’enfance’’ and Poulenc’s Sonata for Violin and Piano during World War II.

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