Prokofiev likened the muted violin's fast, wide-ranging slurred scales in his Violin Sonata No. 1 to 'the wind in a graveyard'.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded at Wyastone Concert Hall in Monmouth, UK, between May 22-25, 2014.
Composition History
Edvard Grieg struggled for several months to complete his Violin Sonata No. 3, unlike his two earlier sonatas which he wrote in a matter of weeks.
Composer Biography
Tchaikovsky's patronage by Nadezhda von Meck, a wealthy patroness, involved the unusual stipulation that they should never meet, though they corresponded and he enjoyed her estate.
Notable Performances
Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 3 was premiered in Leipzig by Grieg himself and violinist Adolf Brodsky, who had also premiered Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto six years prior.
Composition History
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky originally intended the first piece of his Op. 42 trilogy, Souvenir d'un lieu cher, as the slow movement of his Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35.
Composer Biography
Sergey Prokofiev's return to Soviet Russia in 1934 detached him from the European avant-garde and placed him in an environment where composers were expected to write optimistic music.
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