(Solo Violin, Leonard Busfield)
(Solo Pianoforte, Vera McComb Thomas)

This early work (it was published when Beethoven was twenty-nine) has little of solemnity and nothing of heaviness.
Its First Movement is gay. Spring-like music, fresh and exhilarating.
The Second Movement, though slower and more meditative, is but an interlude of homely chat between friends. There is here no spirit of 'Ah, things aren't what they were'. Rather do we imagine two people, who understand each other's hopes and aims, discussing the future in quietly optimistic mood.
The Third Movement (the last) is again happy, in a care-free style. It is built on three Main Tunes, the First of which as a touch of syncopation in it. The Second (Pianoforte and Violin together, in octaves, very quietly) has the simplicity of a country dance. The Third (Violin) is song-like. One feels it ought to have words.