British Violin Sonatas
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0610
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 28th February 2020
Contents
Works
Sonatina for violin and pianoElegy, op.33 no.2
Toccata, op.33 no.3
Caprice for violin and piano
Elegy for violin and piano
Little Dancer for violin and piano
Violin Sonata no.1, op.4
Pierrette: Valse Caprice
Violin Sonata
Artists
Clare Howick (violin)Simon Callaghan (piano)
Works
Sonatina for violin and pianoElegy, op.33 no.2
Toccata, op.33 no.3
Caprice for violin and piano
Elegy for violin and piano
Little Dancer for violin and piano
Violin Sonata no.1, op.4
Pierrette: Valse Caprice
Violin Sonata
Artists
Clare Howick (violin)Simon Callaghan (piano)
About
Making her debut on SOMM, violinist Clare Howick’s championing of this repertoire prompted iclassical to declare “the record-buying public owe [her] a debt of gratitude”. She is accompanied by pianist Simon Callaghan.
From the middle of the century, and commissioned for Yehudi Menuhin, William Walton’s Violin Sonata is unique in the composer’s oeuvre with its almost constant sense of nervous uncertainty. Composed the same year (1948), Kenneth Leighton’s youthful First Violin Sonata is the product, as Robert Matthew-Walker comments in his authoritative booklet notes, of “a deep-thinking musician of whom everything he was to write, from his earliest compositions onwards, is genuinely felt and unaffectedly original”.
William Alwyn’s beautifully proportioned Sonatina (1933) receives only its second appearance on disc here. Composed the following year, Alan Rawsthorne’s Pierrette: Valse Caprice is best remembered from its quotation in the composer’s soundtrack for the 1947 film Uncle Silas.
The contrasted Elegy and Toccata from Lennox Berkeley’s 1951 Op.33 reveal a master craftsman in miniature, while three pieces by Gordon Jacob – Little Dancer (1959), Caprice (1969) and Elegy (1972) – all make their first appearances on disc here.
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