The piece, "Capriccio for Carolina, " was in turn inspired by Beethoven's Kreutzer Violin Sonata.

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Gurney's Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major is featured on a CD, called Works for Violin and Piano, released by EM Records.

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His last chapter, describing how a subway busker reduces a crowd of scurrying New Yorkers to rapt silence with a Bach violin sonata, is an appropriate image for our times, a sign that classical music does indeed still matter.

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In total he wrote hundreds of pieces of music but his Violin Sonata in E-Flat Major was one of only five sonatas he finished, all of which are stored among 1, 347 items in a Gurney collection at Gloucestershire Archives.

BBC: Rare Ivor Gurney violin sonata released

Now, sticking with Ernest Bloch for a moment, if we take the opening of his second sonata for violin and piano, it's also called the Poeme Mystique.

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