Composer: Fritz Hart
Performer: Susan Collins, Stephanie McCallum
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0470
Release: 2019
Size: 1.02 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Hart: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 42
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Finale
Hart: Violin Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 142
03. I. Adagio
04. II. Allegro
Hart: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 7
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Adagio – Cantabile nobilmente
Hart: St. Francis, Op. 117
07. Prelude (Arr. for Violin & Piano)
08. Bach: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 (Arr. F. Hart for Violin & Piano)
09. Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625 (Arr. F. Hart for Violin & Piano)
The composer and conductor Fritz Hart (1874–1949) led a peripatetic life: London-born, he moved to Australia to tour travelling productions of musicals there and in New Zealand. He soon became a formative figure in Australian musical life as teacher and conductor, but in 1936 left to become the first professor of music at the University of Hawai‘i and permanent conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. Hart‘s three violin sonatas – poised but passionate – reveal a musical language influenced by Debussyan Impressionism but also coloured by his own Celtic roots.