Adagio

This angular and searing sonata is today an integral part of the repertoire of many a violin virtuoso. According to his own assertions, Janácek wrote the Ballade and the Adagio finale 'at the start of the war in 1914, when we were expecting the Russians to arrive in Moravia'. Not until seven years later did the other two movements of the sonata take shape. Here with Kai Vogler, violin and Roglit Ishay, piano.