Eminent composer and revered teacher, Robert Fuchs, was an established part of Vienna’s musical landscape. His six violin sonatas fuse lyricism with conversational ease and chromatic harmonies with folk-derived melodies. This second volume of the complete set (Volume 1 is on 8574213) charts a decade’s worth of composition, from 1905 to 1915. No.4 in E major is hymn-like, while no.5 in A major is playful and deeply lyrical. His final violin sonata no.6 in G minor, is sombre with a nervous energy reflective of the time of its composition, though still, as always, exuding Brahmsian richness and beauty.

This volume completes the recording of all of Robert Fuchs’s six sonatas. Gramophone commented on the previous volume (8574213) that ‘the attentiveness of their musicmaking well served by the admirably lucid sound. Qualities, indeed, that will doubtless be equally in evidence on the follow-up release of Fuchs’s subsequent three sonatas’.

Violinist Hyejin Chung, together with pianist Warren Lee, recorded the Schubert Violin Sonatas on 8573579 about which audiotechnique wrote: ‘Hyejin Chung and Warren Lee… are a perfect match… Recording sound is spacious … One can easily imagine being immersed in the music’.