{TABLE} Irish Fantasy...............................Harty Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op.24.............Beethoven Sonata Movement 1855........................ScherzoBrahms Sonata for Violin and Piano.................Ravel {/TABLE} ALL the works in Sunday's recital ha a youthful energy, though Brahms alone would be considered young he was 20 when he composed his Scherzo Movement. Ravel was 52 when he gave the first performance of his Sonata, but he had responded with juvenile enthusiasm to American jazz and in the second movement showed what he could do in that line, with a taste and elegance not always present in his original models.

The first movement shows him still enthralled by French orientalism and the final movement is a sort of apotheosis of motion. In this work, as in the Brahms Scherzo, the duo of the Hunt sisters matched the youthfulness of the music and the changes of mood with an alert and genial interpretation.

Hamilton Harty's Irish Fantasy uses Irish dance rhythms and melodic turns to create a folksy atmosphere. Written in 1812, it predates or anticipates the Celtic music of our day and 15 equally far from any but a superficial relationship with its origins. It is a pleasant enough trifle and the duo did it proud.

Beethoven's Sonata in F, Op 24 could have done with a sharper edge: the playing did not, I felt, deliver all the potential of the music. A transitional work between early and middle Beethoven, it is difficult to strike the right balance between the classical and romantic aspects.