Even though this is an album of modernist and contemporary works for violin and piano, some are more accessible than others, and not all are experimental or difficult. Sonatas and Images is literally titled, sorted between full-length sonatas by Leos Janácek, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Charles Ives, and shorter impressions by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Bonnie Miksch and Zwilich. The range of styles is fairly broad, from Ives' iconoclastic but tuneful Sonata No. 4, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" (1906-1916) and Janácek's ...
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Even though this is an album of modernist and contemporary works for violin and piano, some are more accessible than others, and not all are experimental or difficult. Sonatas and Images is literally titled, sorted between full-length sonatas by Leos Janácek, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Charles Ives, and shorter impressions by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Bonnie Miksch and Zwilich. The range of styles is fairly broad, from Ives' iconoclastic but tuneful Sonata No. 4, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" (1906-1916) and Janácek's plaintively lyrical Sonata for violin and piano (1914-1921), to the more exploratory miniatures that take some risks, such as the volatile Undertow (1997) by Fairlie-Kennedy and the eerily nocturnal "man dreaming butterfly dreaming man" (2001) by Miksch, both expressed in the lingua franca of the 1970s avant-garde. Somewhere between these works' stylistic poles are Zwilich's Sonata in three movements (1973-1974) and her Romance (1993), originally scored for violin and chamber...
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