Adila Fachiri (violin)
Kathleen Long (pianoforte)
Delius's third Violin Sonata belongs to the last group of works that were completed, with the aid of Eric Fenby , in 1930. 'The incessant flow of the music says Cecil Gray , ' is perhaps the most noteworthy characteristi.c of Delius's chamber music. He hardly allows either of the players to take breath, metaphorically speaking, from beginning to end of the respective works, and the moments of repose, in a mental as well as in a physical sense, are few and far between. '
Schumann's Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 121, is the second of two sonatas composed at Diisseldorf in 1851. The public performance took place at Leipzig in 1854. In a letter to a friend Joachim wrote: ‘To me, it is one of the finest creations of modern times, in the wonderful unity of its feeling and the significance of its themes. It is full of a noble passion-almost harsh and bitter in its expression-and the last movement might almost remind one of a seascape, with its glorious waves of sound. '