Your Top 10 Favorite Violin Sonatas

[ritter]

Unfortunately, the "violin sonata" is a genre that normally makes me want to scream. I know, it's crazy, but it is what it is... 

[Florestan]

Unfortunately, the "violin sonata" is a genre that normally makes me want to scream. I know, it's crazy, but it is what it is... 

Chaconne a son gout, euskaldunek esan ohi duten bezala.

Boas tardes, meu amigo!

[Kalevala]

Unfortunately, the "violin sonata" is a genre that normally makes me want to scream. I know, it's crazy, but it is what it is... 

Oh, nooooo!    Well, we all have are areas.  Any ones that you like to listen to on that rare occasion?

K

[Florestan]

Well, we all have are areas.

TBH, my least favorite genre is the symphony, at least from 1850 onwards. 

[ritter]

Oh, nooooo!    Well, we all have are areas.  Any ones that you like to listen to on that rare occasion?

K

The only one that come to mind is Enesco's Sonata No. 3, « dans le caractère populaire roumain »... 

[Wanderer]

Unfortunately, the "violin sonata" is a genre that normally makes me want to scream.  

That would make a great 4'33"!

[Madiel]

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...

This is still on my to do list. I have all the Mozart sonatas too now! Also Sibelius, Dvorak, Nielsen.

But it's still very much the case that the violinist makes a massive difference to my enjoyment of violin works.

[kyjo]

TBH, my least favorite genre is the symphony, at least from 1850 onwards. 

    

It's okay, Andrei, we can still be friends...maybe...

[kyjo]

Today's list:

Grieg 2
Ives 3
Janáček
Lekeu
Medtner 3
Poulenc (likely my #1 fave in the genre)
Prokofiev 1
Schumann 2
Strauss
Vaughan Williams

[Brian]

Hmmm.

Antheil 3
Beethoven 9 and 10
Franck
Fauré 1
Grieg 3
Janacek
Prokofiev 1 and 2
Roussel 2

Need to revisit the Brahms cycle ASAP.

Finally, a tie: any by Mozart when played by Grumiaux or FPZ.

[kyjo]

Hmmm.

Antheil 3
Beethoven 9 and 10
Franck
Fauré 1
Grieg 3
Janacek
Prokofiev 1 and 2
Roussel 2

Need to revisit the Brahms cycle ASAP.

Finally, a tie: any by Mozart when played by Grumiaux or FPZ.

Great list, Brian - it could very well be my own! Don't though any of the Antheil sonatas, though - must rectify that.

[Brian]

Great list, Brian - it could very well be my own! Don't though any of the Antheil sonatas, though - must rectify that.

The newish Tianwa Yang disc is super cool and was my introduction!