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WTJU Dec 22nd, 2020 | By Ralph Graves This latest installment of Furstenthal’s music features four instrumental sonatas and a string quartet. Like the preceding volumes, the music here is of very fine quality, and timeless. Furstenthal’s promising musical career was derailed when Austria was invaded in 1838. The young composer fled to the United States and never wrote another note. Not until 1973, that is, when Furstenthal reconnected with his first love. Thanks to her encouragement, he began writing again and continued composing for the rest of his life (Furstenthal died in 2016, aged 96.) Furstenthal said that “when I compose, I am back in Vienna.” That sense of nostalgia is strong in many of his works. Furstenthal’s style is that of the late-Romantic. Some of these sonatas reminded me of Robert Fuch’s music. ....