Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars - Pinto: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin (2017)

George Frederick Pinto (1785–1806) is one of the major ‘what-ifs’ of music history: a child prodigy both as performer (on violin and piano) and as composer, he was only twenty when he died, probably from tuberculosis or from what one writer called ‘dissipation’. But the music he composed in the little time he had reveals a composer as gifted as almost any of his contemporaries. These three quirky and inventive violin sonatas – receiving their first recordings here – sit on the cusp of Romanticism, their Classical elegance warmed by a graceful lyricism that looks forward to Schubert.

Tracklist
1. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 1 in G Minor: I. Allegro moderato con espressione (08:09)
2. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 1 in G Minor: II. Adagio sostenuto e legato (06:11)
3. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 1 in G Minor: III. Rondo. Allegretto grazioso (05:33)
4. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 2 in A Major: I. Allegro moderato con espressione (09:30)
5. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 2 in A Major: II. Andante (03:56)
6. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 2 in A Major: III. Rondo. Allegro con brio (06:04)
7. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 3 in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro moderato con espressione e spirito (09:21)
8. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 3 in B-Flat Major: II. Adagio affettuoso e con sentimento (04:03)
9. Kenji Fujimura & Elizabeth Sellars – Sonata for Piano & Violin No. 3 in B-Flat Major: III. Rondo. Allegro moderato (04:44)