British Violin Sonatas
Walton
Violin Sonata
26:561
I.Allegro tranquillo12:38
2
II.Variazioni14:18
Alwyn
Sonatina for violin & piano
10:383
I.Allegro e grazioso3:49
4
II.Adagio3:36
5
III.Vivace3:13
6
Gordon Jacob3:05
Elegy
7
Gordon Jacob2:25
Caprice
8
Gordon Jacob2:13
Little Dancer
Kenneth Leighton
Violin Sonata No. 1
17:509
I.Allegro molto appassionato4:56
10
II.Lento e liberamente6:33
11
III.Presto energico6:21
12
Rawsthorne3:27
Pierrette: Valse-Caprice
13
Lennox Berkeley3:28
Elegy No. 2a, Op. 33
14
Lennox Berkeley1:52
Toccata No. 3, Op. 33
With Clare Howick (violin)
The British violin sonata has never held the standing of the country's orchestral, choral or solo vocal music, which is part of why so much of this repertoire went unrecorded for so long. Clare Howick and Simon Callaghan take six figures from the twentieth-century chamber renaissance in Britain: Walton's Sonata, written for Menuhin; Kenneth Leighton's First; Alwyn's Sonatina; Rawsthorne's Pierette; two pieces from Lennox Berkeley's Op. 33; and three short works by Gordon Jacob — the Elegy, Caprice and Little Dancer — recorded here for the first time.
Pick of the Day, WFMT Chicago, 26 April 2020
The Strad Recommends, June 2020