Erwin Schulhoff:
Sonata for violin solo

Paul Hindemith:
Violin Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2

Philipp Jarnach:
Sonata for violin solo, Op. 13

Eduard Erdmann:
Sonata for solo violin, Op. 12

The internationally acclaimed Latvian violinist Baiba Skride makes her first recording of music for unaccompanied violin with this programme of sonatas by Erwin Schulhoff, Paul Hindemith, Philipp Jarnach and Eduard Erdmann.

Although Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin are regarded as the measure of every violinist’s technical skill and maturity, works for unaccompanied violin became increasingly rare in the classical and romantic eras that followed. It wasn’t until the turn of the 20th century that Max Reger made a conspicuous contribution to the genre with a total of eleven sonatas. His example no doubt provided the impetus and inspiration for his contemporaries and successors to create these further four additions to the genre, all written in the 1920s.

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Recording: Berlin, Jesus-Christus-Kirche Berlin Dahlem, 04-07 November 2020. Baiba Skride plays the Yfrah Neaman Stradivarius.