Your Top 10 Favorite Violin Sonatas

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Ras

Quote from: amw on January 13, 2019, 06:03:58 AM
There are a few releases but this one may be the most accessible

Thank you amw!
Unfortunately it is out of print and it will be too expensive for me to buy it now. But I will keep an eye on it and see if something happens...
"Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable." - Carl Nielsen

Mirror Image

Quote from: Alberich on January 13, 2019, 04:09:31 AM
Btw, John, Debussy died in 1918, not 1917.

Kudos, Alberich. I tried to remember the years from memory without resorting to Google and looks like the memory banks suffered a system failure in the process. ;)

Ras

Hi Mirror Image

You have a great Debussy quote as your signature:
Quote"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art." - Claude Debussy

Do you happen to remember where it's from?
I would like to read it in its original context.
"Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable." - Carl Nielsen

Mirror Image

Quote from: Ras on January 13, 2019, 07:23:02 AM
Hi Mirror Image

You have a great Debussy quote as your signature:
Do you happen to remember where it's from?
I would like to read it in its original context.

Hello Ras, via Wikiquote -

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
- As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
- Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Ras

Quote from: Mirror Image on January 13, 2019, 07:59:48 AM
Hello Ras, via Wikiquote -

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
- As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
- Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Thanks! I will find that John Paynter book. :)
"Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable." - Carl Nielsen

Mirror Image

Quote from: Ras on January 13, 2019, 08:07:40 AM
Thanks! I will find that John Paynter book. :)

You're welcome, but this might be a more useful book for you (that is if want a deeper understanding of Debussy):

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Here's another good one I've been reading lately:

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Ras

Quote from: Mirror Image on January 13, 2019, 08:14:38 AM
You're welcome, but this might be a more useful book for you (that is if want a deeper understanding of Debussy):

[asin] 0521654785[/asin]

Here's another good one I've been reading lately:

[asin] 1574670689[/asin]

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Thank you for your recommendations.
There is a new book out about Debussy by Stephen Walsh (all I know about him is that he wrote a book on Stravinsky).
Have you read it?:

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"Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable." - Carl Nielsen

kyjo

Quote from: Mirror Image on January 12, 2019, 08:47:23 PM
Indeed. Love his Cello Sonata. One performance of this piece that I've really taken quite a shine to lately has been Gerhardt/Osborne on Hyperion. Have you heard it?

Nope, I haven't; I'll have to check it out!
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff


kyjo

Time for an update! 8)

Beethoven no. 9 Kreutzer
Brahms no. 3
Grieg no. 3
Ireland no. 2
Medtner no. 3 Epica
Novák
Peterson-Berger no. 2
Poulenc
Prokofiev no. 1
Walton
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Symphonic Addict

Having listened to Beethoven's Op. 23 last night...

Beethoven 4
Brahms 2
Busoni 2
Enescu 3
Franck
Ives 2 or 3
Nielsen 2
Prokofiev 1
Strauss
Walton
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Mirror Image

Quote from: Mirror Image on August 27, 2016, 07:10:16 PM
A difficult poll for me as there's so many of them that I love, but here goes nothing (in no particular order):

Ives (all four of the them)
Ravel
Debussy
Prokofiev 1
Janacek
Elgar
F. Martin 1

I suppose a little update is necessary at this juncture (in no particular order):

Debussy
Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2, Sz. 76
Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major
Janáček
Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor
Strauss
Ives: Violin Sonata No. 2
Stravinsky: Duo concertant (a violin sonata in all but a name, IMHO)
Enescu: Sonata No. 3 in A minor "dans le caractère populaire roumain"
Villa-Lobos: Violin Sonata No. 3, W171

DavidW

My favorite is Shostakovich.  The rest would be filled by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Faure, and Brahms.  I would have to think about the #s to then select from each composer.

Madiel

#53
I still haven't really got to grips enough with a lot of violin sonatas that I own (and I own more now than I did when this poll first came up...).

To be honest I never though I'd like violin sonatas as much as I do now. It's been a gradual process of discovering that a really great violinist makes the instrument sound beautiful.

Perhaps I'll sit down and plot a course through my collection. Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Faure, Franck, Shostakovich, Holmboe, Ravel, Lekeu...
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kyjo

#54
Quote from: kyjo on October 01, 2021, 04:28:49 PM
Time for an update! 8)

Beethoven no. 9 Kreutzer
Brahms no. 3
Grieg no. 3
Ireland no. 2
Medtner no. 3 Epica
Novák
Peterson-Berger no. 2
Poulenc
Prokofiev no. 1
Walton

I'm gonna substitute Ireland, Novák, and Peterson-Berger for Elgar, Janáček, and Schumann no. 2 (without diminishing the worth of the three lesser-known ones). Some other violin sonatas I love include:

Bacewicz no. 4, Amy Beach, Delius op. posth. in B major, Théodore Dubois, Reynaldo Hahn, Fauré (both), Franck, Ives nos. 2 and 3, Lekeu, Lloyd, Mozart no. 21 in E minor, Strauss, Vaughan Williams

Though Saint-Saëns is one of my favorite composers, I don't consider his rather popular Violin Sonata no. 1 to be one of his stronger works. I recall enjoying no. 2 more, if memory serves.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff