Artist: Solomia Soroka

Title: Lost American Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2025

Label: Toccata Next

UPC: 5060640070462

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 8-I. Allegro Moderato

This anthology of unknown American violin sonatas - the first of a series - reveals music of astonishing craftsmanship and energy. All three composers - Henry Holden Huss, Henry Schoenefeld and Rossetter Gleason Cole, born less than ten years apart - went to Germany to study before returning to enrich American musical life at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The sheer confidence of their writing in these sonatas, for both violin and piano, in a bold Brahmsian style indicates how much more fine music still has to be discovered, in the output of these three men and from their 'lost generation' of American composers more generally.