Carolyn Huebl, Mark Wait - Schnittke: Complete Violin Sonatas (2011)

Tracklist

01. Violin Sonata No. 1: I. Andante
02. Violin Sonata No. 1: II. Allegretto
03. Violin Sonata No. 1: III. Largo
04. Violin Sonata No. 1: IV. Allegretto scherzando
05. Violin Sonata No. 2, "Quasi una Sonata"
06. Violin Sonata No. 3: I. Andante
07. Violin Sonata No. 3: II. Allegro [molto]
08. Violin Sonata No. 3: III. Adagio
09. Violin Sonata No. 3: IV. Senza tempo (tempo libre, ma inquieto)
10. Violin Sonata 1955: I. [Allegro moderato]
11. Violin Sonata 1955: II. Andante

The violin sonatas by Alfred Schnittke extend over his whole career. The First Sonata is among his earliest major pieces while the Second Sonata typifies the confrontational manner of the works that followed. The much later Third Sonata possesses the spareness and simplicity found in the music from the composer’s last decade, paradoxically shared with the two movements of a violin sonata that Schnittke wrote as a student in 1954 and 1955, and that was only discovered after his death.

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