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Chamber music activities include three discs for the Linn label of music for trumpet and piano (mostly in his own arrangements) with Jonathan Freeman-Attwood.\n\nPraise for Daniel-Ben Pienaar's complete Mozart Piano Sonatas (AV2209)\n\n\"Interpretations where, within the letter critically observed, a numinous power breaks free. 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