Josef Labor Violin & Cello Sonatas

[Alan Howe]

...forthcoming from Capriccio:

https://naxosdirect.com/items/josef-labor-violin-sonata-op.-5-cello-sonata-op.-7-theme-and-variations-op.-10-559152

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8906326--labor-violin-cello-sonata

[Mark Thomas]

Ah, very good. Everything I've heard by Labor has been very finely crafted.

[Alan Howe]

Excerpts now available here:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/sonate-fuer-violoncello-und-klavier-1/hnum/10453875

[eschiss1]

Announced by Naxos for US distribution by them in May.

[Alan Howe]

The Cello Sonata (fp 1895) is a very fine piece, with a gentle, songful, but never bland first movement followed by a dynamic scherzo and a brief Quasi Andante which acts as an introduction to the finale which, like the opening movement, alternates between A major and A minor. The idiom is conservative, but very attractive and not at all staid. The piano part sounds in places very demanding.