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Violin Sonatina
Viola Sonata
violin & viola Lawrence Power
piano Simon Crawford-Phillips
ARTHUR BENJAMIN
(18931960)
Violin Sonatina
(1924)
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1 Tranquilly flowing . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Scherzo di stile antico . . . . . . . .
3 Rondo: Con moto ma non allegro
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(1924)
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[16'10]
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ARTHUR BENJAMIN
and apparent simplicity over quietly sophisticated harmonies, though rising to an unexpectedly desolate central
climax, mimic Ravel better than any quotation. No 4
(Allegro, vigoroso) is a choppy, energetic dance vanishing
in an upward spiral of triplets. No 5 (Allegretto, preciso, in
F minor again) at first pits pizzicato viola against a simple
accompaniment in the pianists left hand but soon opens
out into a kind of hesitant firefly serenade, linking at last
into the C major sixth waltz (Lento, intimo). Here the
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