Browse: Ireland - Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor

...there's no gentility or emotional holding-back about these performances [of the Violin Sonatas] - the works are presented as big-boned, rough-hewn almost, in the Brahmsian tradition but infused... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Howick and Callaghan...are absolutely attuned and on form for the sultry Ravel, and John Ireland’s vigorous yet passionate First Violin Sonata, a work which emerges here as a great and grievously... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Those who think Ireland's music is all face-to-the-wall English melancholy should try the seriously impressive Second Violin Sonata and Second Piano Trio, both wartime-inspired. Strong accounts. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

These are splendid, sensitive, insightful interpretations by two great advocates of British music. I hope Vol. 3 is forthcoming! — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Such was the critical acclaim that greeted the March 1917 premiere of Ireland's Second Violin Sonata that the 37-year-old composer's reputation was cemented virtually overnight. The performers... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…