Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
00:05 I. Allegro limpido-semplice - Tranquillo
07:40 II. Andante mesto - Più mosso
14:11 III. Vivace ma non troppo
Olivier Charlier, violin
Geoffrey Tozer, piano
John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948) was a Scottish composer and educator, most notable for his decades-long tenure teaching composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. For more on McEwen, see my score video of his fourth string quartet: youtu.be/Dvk6pWg_VAc
As compared to the less adventurous second violin sonata, McEwen's sixth - written in 1929, when he was over sixty years old - is much more harmonically daring. The influence of Scottish folk music is also much more noticeable than in the second sonata, particularly in the third movement where the violin plays a jig.
I plan to upload this score and the violin part to IMSLP and will post the link here when they are available.
00:05 I. Allegro limpido-semplice - Tranquillo
07:40 II. Andante mesto - Più mosso
14:11 III. Vivace ma non troppo
Olivier Charlier, violin
Geoffrey Tozer, piano
John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948) was a Scottish composer and educator, most notable for his decades-long tenure teaching composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. For more on McEwen, see my score video of his fourth string quartet: youtu.be/Dvk6pWg_VAc
As compared to the less adventurous second violin sonata, McEwen's sixth - written in 1929, when he was over sixty years old - is much more harmonically daring. The influence of Scottish folk music is also much more noticeable than in the second sonata, particularly in the third movement where the violin plays a jig.
I plan to upload this score and the violin part to IMSLP and will post the link here when they are available.
