Toch sonata (1912), serenade (1917) & quartet (1909)

[eschiss1]

well, one can't get his first violin sonata of 1912 except via download or by purchasing a CD in which it's coupled with three rather later works (http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559716 - in any case not available for a month or so); this download of two early works - his 8th quartet of 1909 in C-sharp minor (not D-flat major despite etc.) (of which I have a cpo recording) and later "Spitzweg" string trio serenade (1917) (possibly only downloadable in the US - not released on CD, at least judging from Worldcat, it's just a download of a digital version of a 1958 LP) may interest anyway

http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=9.80881

(though Naxos has lots such things in their Digital Archives collection.)

[minacciosa]

I have the original lp of the first Violin Sonata. What a contrast it makes with the second. I also have the original lps of that quartet, the serenade, and also the Op.70 quartet and string trio. See here: http://www.amazon.com/Ernst-Toch-String-Quartet-performed/dp/B006GPMYYS
It's all wonderful music.

[eschiss1]

(No argument here- I like practically everything I've heard by him myself and enjoy _especially_ a Laurel CD of his quartets in C op.26 and (sort-of-in-C iirc even though serial) Op.70, and two trio-serenades from his op.37 as well as a brief nostalgic movement for string quartet written for his family, iirc. And I remember looking at his piano quintet back in college and noticing the movement titles- something like

"The Dramatic Movement"
"The Lyrical Movement"
"The Humorous Movement"
- in other words, subtitles-as-"types". For some reason, I found that very amusing, hopefully deliberately...

... anyway. Ermm... (Sorry.)