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William Bolcom’s compositions, widely performed and recorded, include seven symphonies, various concertos, six operas and an extensive catalogue of chamber music. Reflecting the composer’s self-confessed fascination with the instrument since an early age, the four violin sonatas were composed over a period of 40 years. The 1978 Second Sonata was inspired partly by the great jazz fiddler Joe Venuti, many of whose stylistic tricks, including alternate left- and right-hand pizzicato, and double-stop slides, are incorporated into the work. Bolcom has described his highly dramatic Third Sonata as “stramba (weird)… Its last movement shares a mood somewhere between the darker tangos of Astor Piazzolla and Arabic music.”
Violin Sonata No. 1
1 I. Legend 08:02
2 II. Nocturne 04:08
3 III. Quasi-Variations: Scenes From a Young Life 09:45
Violin Sonata No. 2
4 I. Summer Dreams 06:26
5 II. Brutal, fast 02:09
6 III. Adagio 05:33
7 IV. In Memory of Joe Venuti 03:50
Violin Sonata No. 3, "Sonata Stramba"
8 I. A piacere, drammatico - Allegro con fuoco 07:37
