Flury Violin Sonatas 4/5/6/7

[Alan Howe]

More gorgeous stuff from VDE-Gallo:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9794054--richard-flury-violin-sonatas-nos-4-7

I ordered them on CD direct from the label. Arrived today!

[Alan Howe]

No.4's the stand-out piece here. It's barely comprehensible that this richly communicative, melodically generous music is all-but unknown. Not that Nos.5-7 are less attractive: they're shorter, slighter - No.5 is over in a glittering flash (four movements lasting 13:41). All in all, incredibly inventive, beautifully written for the violin, these sonatas are a real tonic, clearly from the 20th century, but continuing in the spirit of romanticism right up until 1948. And apparently there are a further four violin sonatas still to be recorded, taking us to 1961! Just think: I was on holiday with my family in Switzerland in the summer of 1966; and Flury was still alive!

This must be the most glorious cycle of violin sonatas written in the 20th century...