Philip Higham & Susan Tomes - Edinburgh International Festival: Chamber Music Highlights 2020 - The Scotsman

The series’ second recital is a very different conversation, the cello-piano duo of Philip Higham and Susan Tomes engaging in a ruminative coupling of Beethoven and Debussy sonatas, before lightening the tone with a dessert platter of Nadia Boulanger, Martinů and Suk.

Plenty more French sensuality in Nadia Boulanger’s charming Three Pieces, the first a dreamy, oscillating reverie, the second a continuous modal thread marked by typically French canonic interplay, the third a deliciously capricious flirtation.