II. Romance - Andante (第二乐章 浪漫曲 - 行板)-Michael Heald/Liana Embovica-Rivkin

The Violin Sonata is scored for the usual combination of violin and piano, and has three movements: I. Allegro: Risoluto, II. Romance: Andante, III. Allegro non troppo. Elgar's wife noted that the slow movement seemed to be influenced by the 'wood magic' or genii loci of the Fittleworth woods. When the sonata was close to completion, Elgar offered to dedicate it to a family friend, Marie Joshua, and wrote to her: "I fear it does not carry us any further but it is full of golden sounds and I like it, but you must not expect anything violently chromatic or cubist". Marie Joshua died four days after receiving the letter, before she had had an opportunity to reply. As a tribute to her memory, Elgar quoted the dolcissimo melody from the slow movement just before the coda of the final movement. The Violin Sonata in E minor was completed on 15 September 1918, and first performed on 21 March 1919 at a British Music Society meeting, by Elgar's great friend W. H. Reed, with Landon Ronald on piano. The first public performance occurred in June 1919. Albert Sammons and William Murdoch were the sonata's greatest champions in the early years, and they made a recording on 2 February 1935. (It was also Sammons who made the first complete recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor.) Earlier, in 1919, a recording was made by Marjorie Hayward and Una Bourne.