Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene, Phillip Silver - Lost American Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato
02. Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 8: II. Scherzo. Presto
03. Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 8: III. Adagio
04. Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 8: IV. Allegro con moto
05. Violin Sonata, Op. 19: I. Allegro con moto
06. Violin Sonata, Op. 19: II. Adagio sostenuto
07. Violin Sonata, Op. 19: III. Allegro molto
08. Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 53 Quasi fantasia: I. Allegro con spirito e energico
09. Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 53 Quasi fantasia: II. Romanze. Andante cantabile e espressivo - Allegro moderato e tranquillo - Andante
10. Violin Sonata in G Minor, Op. 53 Quasi fantasia: III. Rondo. Vivace

This anthology of unknown American violin sonatas – the first of a series – reveals music of astonishing craftsmanship and energy. All three composers – Rossetter Gleason Cole, Henry Holden Huss and Henry Schoenefeld, born less than ten years apart – went to Germany to study before returning to enrich American musical life at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The sheer confidence of their writing, for both violin and piano, in these sonatas, in a bold Brahmsian style, indicates how much more fine music still has to be discovered, in the output of these three men and from their ‘lost generation’ of American composers more generally.

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