Richard Strauss:
Violin Sonata in E flat op.18
4 Auf stillem Waldespfad (aus ‘Stimmungsbilder’) op.9 no.1 arr. Jascha Heifetz
Cesar Franck:
Violin Sonata in A (1886, FWV 8)
Mélancolie (FWV 10)
Prélude, fugue et variation en si mineur op.18 (FWV 30) (arr. Augustin Dumay and Louis Lortie after Paul Lemaitre)

César Franck’s passionate and sunny Violin Sonata has long been regarded as one of the greatest in the repertoire. Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata is the work of a young composer on the cusp of discovering his mature voice; lyrical and sumptuous, it has all the hallmarks of his later style.