Maria Iouden­itch & Roman Borisov

Maria Iouden­itch presents three different approaches to the violin sonata, accom­pa­nied by Roman Borisov on the piano. Sergei Prokofiev was inspired by George Frideric Handel’s music to compose his first sonata for violin and piano. He composed the sonata during the Second World War. Ten years earlier, Claude Debussy had composed his sonata while the First World War was raging in Europe. Johannes Brahms was the great composer figure from whom Debussy wanted to distin­guish himself artis­ti­cally. In his Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3, he incor­po­rated musical impres­sions of the Hungarian Csárdás bands that played for dancing in the Vienna Prater.