Sheppard Skaerved/Chadwick - Hans Werner Henze: Violin and Viola Works

The sonatas recorded here encompass almost the entirety of Hans Werner Henze�s creative life. Composed in difficult conditions just after WWII, the Violin Sonata covers the broadest range of human emotions, and is in some ways a study for the extraordinary First Violin Concerto (recorded by Peter Sheppard Sk�rved on 8.557738). Steeped in Italian mythology, the Solo Violin Sonata is �a real piece of theatre�, as is the emotionally shattering Viola Sonata, written straight after the completion of the ballet Orpheus. The Violin Sonatina is drawn from Henze�s children�s opera Pollicino, and the two remaining miniatures are memorials for lost colleagues.