Arthur Honegger: Complete Violin Sonatas. Laurence Kayaleh, Violin & Paul Stewart, Piano
Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger is best known for his large-scale oratorios and orchestral works. However, these three sonatas for violin and piano, and the sonata for solo violin, reveal his mastery of intimate forms and ability to combine Germanic traditions with early 20th-century innovations. Spanning nearly thirty years, these alternately passionate and sober, forceful and nostalgic works display Honegger's lyrical and virtuosic writing for his own instrument.
Sonata no. 2, H. 24 (1919). Allegro cantabile.
L. Kayaleh, viol; P. Stewart, p
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