Elgar:
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor Op.82

Debussy:
Sonata for Violin and Piano em G minor

Barbosa:
Romance for Violin and Piano

Moody:
Ascent for Violin and Piano

Ravel:
Tzigane, Rapsodie de Concert for Violin and Piano

The pianist Joao Paulo Santos and I have given concert performances of the five works which make up this CD numerous times. Four of these works (the Sonatas by Elgar and Debussy, Luíz Barbosa’s Romance and Ravel’s Tzigane) were written during the first twenty five years of the twentieth century; Ivan Moody’s Ascent was composed in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. All are masterpieces of the literature for these two instruments, and for this reason we have chosen to create an album that would bring them together, creating a bridge from the last century to the current one.