Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performer: Emmanuele Baldini, Pablo Rossi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2021
Size: 518 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Sonata fantasia No. 1, Op. 35, W51 “Désespérance”
Sonata fantasia No. 2, Op. 29, W83
02. I. Allegro non troppo
03. II. Largo – Moderato
04. III. Rondo. Allegro final
Violin Sonata No. 3, W171
05. I. Adagio non troppo
06. II. Allegro vivace scherzando
07. III. Molto animato e final
Heitor Villa-Lobos’s three violin sonatas date from a key period in his career: the moment at which he matured as a composer, established his personal idiom and achieved his first professional triumphs. Each sonata shares some influence from French late Romanticism or Impressionism, as well as revealing Villa-Lobos’s skill as a string player. The First Violin Sonata’s subtitle of Désespérance (‘Despair’) suits its melancholy lyricism, while the ‘infinite abundance of musical ideas’ in the Second Violin Sonata is characterised by a wide range of emotions. The sophisticated Third Violin Sonata is steeped in the influence of Debussy, but also anticipates Villa-Lobos’s new directions in the 1920s.