“Intermezzi is a duet for romantic guitar and fortepiano, based on songs by Schubert. Both instruments can sound underwhelming in the wrong hands, but guitarist Alexander-Sergei Ramirez and fortepianist Sheila Arnold make only lovely, shimmering sounds in their performance. The allusions to Schubert are mostly subdued, but in “Moto perpetuo” the turning of Gretchen’s spinning wheel is nicely suggested. The last movement is “Ballad,” partaking of Schubert’s miniature psychodrama “Der Erlkönig” with the galloping figure of the original song well represented." Soundboard