WINIFRED SMALL (violin)
MAURICE COLE (pianoforte)
BENJAMIN DALE , now a distinguished member of the staff of the Royal Academy of Music, is an important member of the British renaissance which covered the decade just before the War, and though he has not since added many more to his early list of compositions, all possess a distinction which the years appear to enhance. His music is notable for the beauty of its craftsmanship and for the originality of its melodic invention. That of his work which shows him at his best lies in the chamber works he wrote at the prompting of Lionel Tertis , for Dale was amongst the first to collaborate with Tertis in lifting the viola into the kingdom of solo instruments.
THE THIRD is the latest of Arnold Bax 's Sonatas for violin and piano. Bax has throughout his career added to the repertory of chamber music with consistent regularity, and his work is amongst the most important of modern English chamber music. He, too, was one of the leaders, with Benjamin Dale , Frank Bridge , and others, of the British renaissance.