Some Early 20th Century British Violin Sonatas

I recently posted John Ireland’s reply to the letter by the violinist Marie Hall in the Daily Mail on January 20 1922. Hall had bemoaned the shortage of British violin sonatas: Ireland had mentioned a number by active British composers. I have listed all the works in the genre written by each composer however note that only those before 1922 would have been known to John Ireland and should have been known to a violinist of the competence of Marie Hall.  With the exception of John Blackwood McEwen (four recorded only) all these sonatas are currently available on CD or download.

Arnold Bax (1883-1953)

Violin Sonata No.1 (1910, revised 1915)

Violin Sonata No.2 (1915, revised 1922)

Violin Sonata No.3 (1927)

Violin Sonata in F major (No.4) (1928)

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Sonata in B major for violin and piano, Op. Posth. (1892) [This would have been unknown to John Ireland]

Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (1905-14)

Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1922-23)
Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano (1930)

Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946)

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 27 (1908)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in F major  Op.50 (1917)

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, in 1918, 

Eugene Goossens (1893-1962)

Violin Sonata No.1, Op.21 (1918)

Violin Sonata No.2, Op.50 (1930)

John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948)

Ireland notes that McEwen had composed two violin sonatas. Actually by 1922 there were five examples.

Sonata No. 1 in E♭ major for violin and piano (1913)

Sonata No. 2 in F minor for violin and piano (1913–1914) [recorded]

Sonata No. 3 in G for violin and piano (1913)

Sonata No. 4 ‘A Little Sonata’ in A major for violin and piano (1917)

Sonata No. 5 "Sonata-Fantasia" for violin and piano (1922) [recorded]

Sonata No. 6 for violin and piano (1929) [recorded]

Sonata No. 7 in A minor for violin or viola and piano (c.1939) [recorded]

Cyril Scott (1879-1970)

Violin Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 59 (1908)

Sonata ‘Lirica’ for violin and piano (1937)

Violin Sonata No. 2 (1950)

Sonata ‘Melodica’ (1950)

Violin Sonata No. 3 (1955)

Violin Sonata No. 4 (1956)