Bloch, Sonata for violin and piano (Masters Music)

Ernest Bloch's Sonata for violin and piano is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the violin repertoire. Bloch composed the work in 1920.   This violin sonata makes considerable demands of both technique and endurance from the violinist.  Bloch himself described the sonata as a "tormented work", and Roger Sessions described it as having a characteristic "mood of pessimism, irony and nostalgia".