ROBERT SOETENS (violin)
ERNEST LUSH (pianoforte)
Roussel, like Rimsky-Korsakov, began his career in his country's naval service. At the age of twenty-seven he became a pupil of d'Indy. His Second Sonata was composed in 1925. It is a boldly experimental work, in the same three-movement scheme as the first. The themes themselves are all easily followed ; it is in their treatment that modem devices can be heard.