Classical home listening - Isata Kanneh-Mason; Fretwork with Iestyn Davies; Mirga at the Proms

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Kanneh-Mason’s second album is a delight; Davies and Fretwork excel in early baroque German music; and the pick of Proms week one

• With its brilliant fugue finale, Samuel Barber’s heavyweight yet economical Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 26 provides a strong backbone to Summertime (Decca), Isata Kanneh-Mason’s second solo album. This beguiling recital of music by (mainly) American composers, from Earl Wild’s jazz-rag reinvention of Gershwin’s Summertime and I Got Rhythm to Aaron Copland’s super-energetic The Cat and the Mouse, shows the young British pianist’s multifaceted musical personality.