Granville Bantock - Violin Sonata No. 1 in G (1928-29) /Violin Sonata No. 2 in D (1929-32)

Granville Bantock

 

(7 August 1868 – 16 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music.

 

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 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G (1928-29)  

I. Allegro con moto [0:00]
II. Andante sostenuto [12:58]
III. Allegro vivo non tanto [20:38]

The first sonata for violin and piano by the late Romantic British composer Granville Bantock (1868-1946), a student of Frederick Corder. Bantock was a close friend of the composers Edward Elgar and Havergal Brian.

 

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D (1929-32)           I. Lentemente non troppo - Allegro con anima [0:00]
II. A piacere, quasi recitativo - Agitato con moto [10:32]
III. Andante con moto rubato - Con brio [20:07]

A charming, beautiful sonata for violin and piano by the late Romantic British composer Granville Bantock (1868-1946), his second work in the form (the first can also be found on my channel). This work dates from the same period as Bantock's Pagan Symphony and Prometheus Unbound, and it was composed near the end of his long tenure as Peyton Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham.

 

 

 

Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was an eminent Scottish surgeon.^[1] He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service^[2] but he suffered poor health and initially turned to chemical engineering. At the age of 20, when he began studying composers' manuscripts, at South Kensington Museum Library, he was drawn into the musical world.^[1] His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at Trinity College of Music. In 1888^[3] he entered the Royal Academy of Music where he studied harmony and composition with Frederick Corder^[4] winning the Macfarren Prize in the first year it was awarded

 

 

His music was influenced by folk song of the Hebrides (as in his 1915 Hebridean Symphony) and the works of Richard Wagner. Many of his works have an "exotic" element, including the choral epic Omar Khayyám (1906–09).^[6] Among his other better-known works are the overture The Pierrot of the Minute (1908) and the Pagan Symphony (1928). Many of his works have been commercially recorded since the early 1990s.

 

Shortly after the composer's death in London, in 1946, a Bantock Society was established. Its first president was Jean Sibelius, whose music Bantock championed during the early years of the century. Sibelius dedicated his Third Symphony to Bantock.

Edward Elgar dedicated the second of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches to Bantock.