Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor

[gprengel]

I'd like to present to you my violin sonata in e-minor which I wrote 10 years ago and which still means very much to me.

Here is at first the quite furious 3rd movement :

III.  Allegro con fuoco (Tarantella):

http://www.gerdprengel.de/violin-sonata-3.mp3

http://gerdprengel.de/violinsonata_3.pdf

The other 2 movements I will add later ...

Gerd

[relm1]

I enjoyed it.  Some constructive criticism, I woulnd't have minded more violin flourishes especially as the work develops, to be more idiomatic and add a layer of excitement rather than the straight repetitions.  Also perhaps introduce some variation to the material like a harmonic substitution after a melodic idea has been heard two or more times, then we need something new otherwise it starts to feel stale.  Also watch the piano voice leading.  There is a lot of parallel motion and right hand left/hand mirroring and contrast is more interesting rather than doubling.  Nice job though.

[vandermolen]

I enjoyed it as well.

[gprengel]

Thank you, Relm1, for your helpful remarks. I will consider that....

Here now my first movement with a very Romantic main theme:

http://gerdprengel.de/violinsonata-1.mp3
http://gerdprengel.de/violinsonata-1.pdf

(sometimes there seems to be a short hesitating in the flow. This has some technical reason which I couldn't fix so far...)

Gerd