Description
Inspired by Béla Bartók's violin sonatas, Ravel planned his own sonata for violin and piano in 1922, but initially only produced sketches. The work faced numerous interruptions and was not completed until 1927. Ravel dedicated the finished sonata to his violinist friend Hélène Jourdan-Morhange. While the sparse, thinned-out compositional structure and instrumentation led Ravel to later emphasize the tonal incompatibility of the violin and piano, the sonata nonetheless secured a lasting place in the violin repertoire, due in no small part to its middle movement's jazz and "blues" influences. This Henle Urtext edition features fingerings provided by renowned instrumentalists Christian Tetzlaff and Pascal Rogé.
