Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2002)

"Langgaards First Sonata is the product of four intensive days of composition at a sanatorium in Scania. This work virtually defines the stormy triumphant romanticism of youth. It is a work of lightning-strike violence raptly caught up in the legacies of Grieg and Brahms. (...) The single movement Second Sonata is spare by comparison, strange and challenging, built around a hymn-like tune. The tonality drifts pleasantly but drifts nonetheless. Oh there are touches of the old Brahmsian manner but other impressionistic and dissonant fires play through and over this music. (...) The two artists here struck me as utterly committed and highly sympathetic to Langgaard's idiosyncratic muse. If you enjoy the driftways between melody and dissonance then do not miss this first salvo in a new Dacapo series." (Musicweb)

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