Beethoven's sonatas for violin and pianoforte
Played by Ernest Whitfield and Kendal Taylor
No. 8—First and Second Movements
This Sonata, the last of the three that make up Beethoven's Op. 30, contains a large proportion of captivatingly merry music.
The very first notes of the First Movement are infectiously gay, and the alternations of the bustling, running, twelve-notes-to-a-bar motif, and the dancing six-notes-to-a-bar motif, are piquantly kept up.
A rather long, demurely attractive Minuet, in Haydnish style, follows as Second Movement.