When William Walton (1902- 83) began his Piano Quartet in D minor, he was a student still writing letters to his mother thanking her for money and tuck, and telling her about a scrap with students ...

It's an interesting idea to pair Ravel's music for violin and piano with the songful, Franckian Violin Sonata in G by Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu, who died in 1894 at the age of 24. Lekeu was ...

Ravel’s output for violin and piano clocks in at around 50 minutes, so there’s a generous bonus on this CD in the shape of Guillaume Lekeu’s Violin Sonata. Lekeu, a pupil of Cesar Franck, died in 1894 ...

The composer’s jazz-influenced sonata and ‘Tzigane’ plus the sole surviving movement from a student piece ...