Charles Tournemire (1870 - 1939) - Sonate-Poème, for violin and piano, Op. 65 (1934 - 1935)

Devy Erlih, violin
Henriette Puit-Roget, piano (1973)

Sonate-Poème, Op. 65 by Charles Tournemire is a work for violin and piano consisting of a single movement that lasts around 18 minutes.

Charles Tournemire’s Sonate-Poème, Op. 65, is his second and final work for violin and piano, the first being his Violin Sonata, Op. 1, written in 1892. Unlike the earlier sonata, which is a more conventional four-movement sonata, the Sonate-Poème is in a single movement divided into several smaller sections. The work features dense piano writing that often uses three or four staves, and the violin part, while mostly lyrical, is not without difficulty, either, with many rapid runs. The work displays a complex harmonic language that looks forward to Messiaen at points, along with a constantly changing meter, which gives the piece an improvisatory feel.

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