William Mathias: Violin Sonatas
Sara Trickey (violin) & Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano)
Though unequal in palces, there are numerous points where [the 1952 Sonata's] facility which point to the later concision of Mathias's mature voice...The Violin Sonata No. 1 of 1962 shows that...
William Mathias: Violin Sonatas
Sara Trickey (violin) & Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano)
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Though unequal in palces, there are numerous points where [the 1952 Sonata's] facility which point to the later concision of Mathias's mature voice...The Violin Sonata No. 1 of 1962 shows that...
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William Mathias’s eloquent and accessible style comes to the fore in these première recordings of his music for violin and piano.
His unpublished Violin Sonata (1952) is a highly original and ambitious work from his student days. The First Violin Sonata is a model of clarity and concision, while the Second Violin Sonata, commissioned to celebrate the composer’s 50th birthday, is cast in four vividly contrasted – and virtuosic – movements.
Sara Trickey, praised by The Strad for her “fiery and passionate” playing, joins Iwan Llewelyn-Jones.
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Awards and reviews
February 2012
Though unequal in palces, there are numerous points where [the 1952 Sonata's] facility which point to the later concision of Mathias's mature voice...The Violin Sonata No. 1 of 1962 shows that the richer, post-romantic harmony of his unpublished earlier sonata was jettisoned in favour of a more rhythmically vital language...the larger, dynamic Violin Sonata No. 2...is a more concentrated work, more polarised in its rhetorical extremes
30th June 2011
They are vivid and compact, with sharp, clean outlines, and Sarah Trickey and pianist Iwan Llewelyn-Jones clearly revel in the idiomatic violin and piano writing.
