Winifred Small (violin)
Maurice Cole (pianoforte)
Grieg's Sonata
The C minor Sonata, published in 1887, is the third and last of Grieg's sonatas for violin and piano. 'It may be described as a dramatic sonata', says M. M. UIfrstad. 'With its simple lines and clearly defined formation, imbued with the spirit of conflict and melancholy, it stands as a monumental work in the sonata literature of the North'.
The purist may complain that it is not very satisfactory as a sonata. (Grieg was too much a lyrical miniaturist to be really happy in the larger forms.) But the work contains so many charming ideas, so much that no one but Grieg could possibly have written, that it will always keep a very high place in the affections of Grieg lovers.
El Poema de una Sanluquena A slight programme is attached to this characteristically Spanish suite of Turina, of which only two movements are to be played this evening. The first of these describes a vision of love which becomes frenzied and distorted. In the second, the 'girl of San Lunar' puts on a beauty spot to add to her charms - and sings a song about it.