Violin and Piano Sonatas

[adusha]

Hello everyone,

I'm piano player and together with a friend of mine "violinist" have to present the exam program for chamber music, two sonatas. I suggested:

Richard Strauss Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major, op.18
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1 in F minor, Op 80

Any other suggestion would be helpful, anything.

Thanks

[gvans]

There is so much good literature for that duo, the sky's the limit. You can start with the 3 B's: Bach wrote 6 violin/keyboard sonatas and they are all exquisite; Beethoven wrote ten and they are classic Beethoven, ranging through his various re-incarnations (the first and tenth are wonderful and not that often played, everything in between is also great); Brahms wrote his three masterpieces. You've got modern stuff: Charles Wuorinen (1988), Copland (1942), and others, French stuff: Ravel, Debussy, Franck (a favorite, well, he's Belgian, but close enough), Poulenc; Russian sonatas besides the Prokofieff: Shostakovitch, Khachaturian. Did I forget Mozart? Achh! 36 of them, and Mozart really never did write anything bad...S composers: Schumann, Schubert, Sibelius, your Strauss..   The list goes on. Try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_violin_sonatas

But you can't beat the three Brahms, IMHO. Especially the first and the last.

[adusha]

Thanks for reply,

We actually chose what we're gonna play, 1st sonata Brahms and 2d sonata Schumann, this is for our 2d exam that we have. The first exam is this month and we're gonna play Janacek sonata and Bach's 5th.    Thanks anyway.

[kurtdaniel1]

All ten violin sonatas hail from a relatively short (if incredibly transformative) period in Beethoven's creative life, with the first nine composed within six years, and the final work in the form almost a decade later. Still to come were all of the late quartets and sonatas.- Matthew Shorter

   1. Sonata in C major no. 1 op. 12
   2. Sonata in A major no. 2 op. 12>
   3. Sonata in E flat major no. 3 op. 12
   4. Sonata in A minor no. 4, op. 23
   5. Sonata in F major no. 5, op. 24
   6. Sonata in A major no. 6, op. 30
   7. Sonata in C minor no. 7, op. 30
   8. Sonata in G major no. 8, op. 30
   9. Sonata in A major no. 9, op. 47 “Kreutzer”
  10. Sonata in G major or. 10, op. 96