Fauré's Violin Sonata No.1 was highly praised at its 1877 premiere, with composer Camille Saint-Saëns declaring it the strongest and most charming work to appear in France and Germany in years.
Composition History
Poulenc's Violin Sonata, completed in 1943, was dedicated to the memory of Federico García Lorca, a Spanish poet and playwright killed by fascists in the Spanish Civil War.
Album & Artwork
The album title, 'La Voix' (The Voice), emerged from the vocal quality the performers found central to all the French music on this recording.
Instruments
At the 1924 premiere of Ravel's Tzigane, the pianist used a luthéal, a device that made the piano sound like a cimbalom, to enhance the music's Hungarian quality.
Composition History
Francis Poulenc, a French composer, composed his Violin Sonata during World War Two, despite not particularly caring for the sound of the solo violin.
Composition History
Maurice Ravel, a French composer, set aside his Violin Sonata to compose Tzigane, a concert rhapsody, specifically for the Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi, great-niece of Joseph Joachim.
Composition History
Gabriel Fauré, a French composer, wrote his Violin Sonata No.1 in A, Op.13, in 1875-76, hoping it would help him win the heart of Marianne Viardot, to whom he was engaged.
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