Chung and Consonni

Two ample twentieth century sonatas frame the famous cycle of variations of the aria “Nel cor più non mi sento” from Paisello’s La Molinara, summation of Paganini’s virtuosity and composition flair. Opens with Poulenc’s only sonata for violin and piano, composed between 1942 and 1943 and dedicated to the memory of Federico Garcia Lorca, assassinated by francoists in 1936. Ends with the renowned second sonata of Prokofiev, a re-elaboration of the 1943 original for flute, created in 1944 upon the request of David Oistrach, who was also the first to perform it.