Holloway, R.: Violinsonate Op. 47 (1981)

Ausgabe für Violine solo. Schwierigkeitsgrad: schwer.

This Violin Sonata, composed in August 1981, has four movements:

• l,
  after a brief rhetorical flourish setting out the principal intervallic
  shapes, develops them in a closely-argued sonata-allegro, vigorous and
  energetic with more lyrical interludes en route.
• ll, poco adagio
  is a set of double variations, the first theme slow and meditative, the
  second gently-flowing and wistful; the final variant of the first
  dissolves into a cadenza before closing in a dialogue-coda.
• Ill
  is an extended scherzo, light, airy and silly, twice interrupted by
  rude, robust episodes from some un-named opera buffa (with opera seria
  characters too); the second explodes in a quartet in amorous/acrimonious
  exchange over all four strings: and the entire structure yields two
  times to a (non-operatic) Trio, melodious and much slower.
• IV is
  entitled »Frage« – an impassioned asking of an impossible question –
  and »Antwort«, its graceful/gentle answer, in three strains growing
  gradually longer and calming into eventual repose on the entire piece’s
  central note (if not its literal key), B.

Robin Holloway, 2016

First performed by Ernst Kovacic in September 1981 at the Bruckner Festival, Linz.

Komponist: Robin Holloway.
Originaltitel: Sonata for Solo Violin.
Format: geheftet, 24 Seiten.
Spieldauer: 19′.
Sprache: englisch.
​Verlag: Boosey & Hawkes BH13416.

Inhalt:

• I
• II – Variations
• III – Scherzo
• IV