The violin Sonatas have a special place in Grieg’s compositional evolution, as he wrote in a letter of January 1900 to the Norwegian poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: “Last week I had the pleasure of performing my three violin sonatas with lady Neruda-Hallé… we did very well, and it had special significance for me because these three works are among my very best and represent different stages in my development: the first, naïve and rich in ideas; the second, nationalistic; and the third with a wider outlook.”
Performance duration (approx): 25'00
