Wastnage/Dunn - Richard Arnell: Complete Music for Violin and Piano

This recording pairs music for violin and piano by two young British composers who found themselves marooned in American exile by World War II: Richard Arnell (1917�2009) and Stanley Bate (1911�59). Both composers established respectable careers for themselves in the New World before returning to Britain - Arnell in 1947 and Bate in 1949. Arnell's music can be warmly lyrical and fiercely dramatic by turn, rather like its composer. Bate's First Violin Sonata has echoes of two of his teachers � Vaughan Williams and Hindemith.