Kodaly, Sonatina for Cello & Piano - (Patseas & Lukinov)

Cello - Fotios Patseas Piano - Nikita Lukinov The Sonatina for cello and piano was published in 1969 in an edition by the cellist and musicologist Lev Ginzburg (1907–1981). However, It is believed to be the unpublished movement of the Cello Sonata Op.4 composed in 1909–10. Though Cello Sonata op.4 was originally a work in three movements, Kodaly was dissatisfied with the first of them and allowed the Sonata to be performed, as it has been to this day, as a two-movement diptych. In 1922, when it was to be published, he made a new attempt to compose the first movement, but again was unhappy with the result—this time because he felt his idiom had developed too far in fresh directions—and decided not to combine the new movement with the two existing ones. As a result, this unpublished movement of the Cello Sonata became an individual composition - the Sonatina. Beginning with an impressionistic piano solo before the cello’s first entrance, the work is very lyrical. It displays some clear influe