PEGGY COCHRANE (Violin) with HILDA DEDERICH
(Pianoforte) playing the GRIEG'S feet were first set on the path of music by his friend Ole Bull, the Violinist, to whose influence we owe a good many exceedingly effective Violin pieces that Grieg wrote.
He attempted few large-scale works, and when he used the sonata scheme one finds, usually, that he has simply written three very effective and quite simply constructed pieces, very charming, but not essentially built up into one homogeneous work. He is almost always at his best in short lyrical pieces. This Sonata aims, in its First and Last Movements, at greater intensity of feeling than most' of his other works. Its Second Movement, as in the other two (earlier) Sonatas, is pleasantly romantic.