Title: Complete Violin Music 1 Artist: Antheil / Fagiuoli / Toffanin Label: Avi Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4260085532391 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019-04-26 Number of Discs: 1
George Antheil (1900-1959) had a double life. In the twenties, Antheil was trying to establish his reputation as the torchbearer of the avant-garde: he lived mostly in Europe, scandalizing the public with his iconoclastic music and furiously percussive piano playing. However, in a dramatic turn following a profound personal and artistic crisis, Antheil re-emerged, now in his early forties, as a neo-romantic, fully-integrated American composer, even, to some extent, a conservative. The four sonatas in this first volume of his violin music exemplify the two periods of his creativity. They document Antheil's musical evolution from the percussive First, to the Dadaist-cubist Second and the more neoclassical Third. A hiatus of 25 years separate these early scores from the so-called Second Violin Sonata (i.e. his Fourth Sonata), composed in 1947-48, which is clearly a more classically structured composition.
Tracks: 1.1 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 1~I. Allegro moderato 1.2 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 1~II. Andante moderato 1.3 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 1~III. Funebre, lento expressivo 1.4 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 1~IV. Presto 1.5 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 2: Allegro 1.6 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 3: [Allegro moderato] 1.7 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 4~I. Scherzo-Sonata-Allegro - Allegro giocoso 1.8 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 4~II. Passacaglia-Variations - Larghetto 1.9 Sonate für Violine und Klavier No. 4~III. Toccata-Rondo - Allegro comodo
