Your Top 10 Favorite Violin Sonatas

ritter · October 31, 2024, 08:17:32 AM

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 · October 31, 2024, 08:39:36 AM

Quote from: ritter on October 31, 2024, 08:17:32 AMUnfortunately, the "violin sonata" is a genre that normally makes me want to scream. I know, it's crazy, but it is what it is...

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Boas tardes, meu amigo!

Kalevala · October 31, 2024, 09:06:34 AM

Quote from: ritter on October 31, 2024, 08:17:32 AMUnfortunately, 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 · October 31, 2024, 09:14:26 AM

Quote from: Kalevala on October 31, 2024, 09:06:34 AMWell, we all have are areas.

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

ritter · October 31, 2024, 09:50:11 AM

Quote from: Kalevala on October 31, 2024, 09:06:34 AMOh, 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 · October 31, 2024, 10:09:06 AM

Quote from: ritter on October 31, 2024, 08:17:32 AMUnfortunately, the "violin sonata" is a genre that normally makes me want to scream.

That would make a great 4'33"!

Madiel · October 31, 2024, 06:24:26 PM

Quote from: Madiel on July 06, 2022, 03:41:45 AMI 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 · November 26, 2024, 07:15:04 AM

Quote from: Florestan on October 31, 2024, 09:14:26 AMTBH, my least favorite genre is the symphony, at least from 1850 onwards.

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

kyjo · November 26, 2024, 07:27:22 AM

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 · December 24, 2024, 06:11:29 PM

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 · December 29, 2024, 06:17:36 AM

Quote from: Brian on December 24, 2024, 06:11:29 PMHmmm.

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 · December 29, 2024, 07:47:42 AM

Quote from: kyjo on December 29, 2024, 06:17:36 AMGreat 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!