Fritz HART: Complete Music for Violin and Piano, Volume One
The composer and conductor Fritz Hart (1874–1949) led a peripatetic life: London-born, he moved to Australia to tour travelling productions of musicals there and in New Zealand. He soon became a formative figure in Australian musical life as teacher and conductor, but in 1936 left to become the first professor of music at the University of Hawai‘i and permanent conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. Hart‘s three violin sonatas – poised but passionate – reveal a musical language influenced by Debussyan Impressionism but also coloured by his own Celtic roots.
Stephanie McCallum, piano
Susan Collins, violin
Listen To This Recording:
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Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major,
- I Allegro
- II Finale
- I. Adagio —
- II. Allegro
- I Allegro moderato
- II Adagio – Cantabile nobilmente
- Prelude from St Francis for Violin and Piano
- Herzlich thut mich verlangen
- Christ lag in Todesbanden
Op. 42 (1920)
Violin Sonata No. 3 in G minor,
Op. 142 (1941)
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor,
Op. 7 (1911)
Prelude from St Francis for Violin and Piano (1941)
Two Bach Chorale Paraphrases (1925)
First Recordings
MusicWeb International :
‘We have waited a long time for recordings such as this and the wait has been worth it. Susan Collins plays with refinement as she did in her recordings of the music of Raymond Hanson. Stephanie McCallum is well-known on disc and in recital and proves a splendid collaborator.’
—Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International