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Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op 18
Composer: Richard Strauss
Performer: Veronika Eberle (Violin)
Performer: Oliver Schnyder (Piano)
Recording date: 16 October 2008
Date of broadcast: 12 March 2009
Like his 1st Horn Concerto, Strauss鈥� Violin Sonata is a youthful work. It shares its optimistic and heroic qualities, and is similarly in Eb major, a key used in Beethoven鈥檚 'Eroica Symphony' and 'Emperor Concerto'. The work is also very romantic-sounding, but since it was composed in 1887, the year Strauss married the operatic soprano Pauline de Ahna, it鈥檚 perhaps hardly surprising.
Composer: Richard Strauss
Performer: Veronika Eberle (Violin)
Performer: Oliver Schnyder (Piano)
Recording date: 16 October 2008
Date of broadcast: 12 March 2009
