| 作曲者 | Robin Holloway (b. 1943) |
| タイトル | Sonata for Solo Violin op. 47 |
| 出版社 | Boosey & Hawkes・ブージー＆ホークス |
| 楽器編成 | violin |
| 品番 | 9790060134166 |
| 難易度 | 上級 |
| 形状 | 24 ページ・Saddle stitching |
| 演奏時間 | 19分 |
| 作曲年 | 1981年 |
| 出版年 | 2018年 |
| 出版番号 | BH 13416 |
| ISMN | 979-0060134166 |
| ISBN | 9781784543525 |
This Violin Sonata, composed in August 1981, has four movements:I – after a brief rhetorical flourish setting out the principal intervallic shapes, develops them in a closely-argued sonata-allegro, vigorous and energetic with more lyrical interludes en route.II poco adagio – is a set of double variations, the first theme slow and meditative, the second gently-flowing and wistful; the final variant of the first dissolves into a cadenza before closing in adialogue-coda.III – is an extended scherzo, light, airy and silly, twice interrupted by rude, robust episodes from some un-named opera buffa (with opera seria characters too); the second explodes in a quartet in amorous/acrimonious exchange over all four strings: and the entire structure yields two times to a (non-operatic) Trio, melodious and much slower.IV – is entitled Frage – an impassioned asking of an impossible question – and Antwort – its graceful/gentle answer, in three strains growing gradually longer and calming into eventual repose on the entire piece’s central note (if not its literal key), B.