Review:
“This is the start of yet another intriguing series from Toccata. It’s the inaugural volume of a Lost American Violin Sonatas’ marque and focuses on three German-trained Americans born between 1857 and 1866. Rossetter Gleason Cole studied in Berlin under Max Bruch, Henry Holden Huss in Munich as a pupil of Josef Rheinberger and Henry Schoenefeld in Leipzig. […] These are all first recordings. Solomia Soroka is the adept violinist and she has co-written the booklet notes with her husband, Arthur Greene, pianist for the Cole Sonata. Philip Silver, is pianist on the Huss and Schoenefeld.
-Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International, 2025
A fascinating first-in-a-planned-series Toccata Next recording that offers world premières of three violin sonatas by entirely obscure American composers provides a fascinating entry point to the world of American classical music at a time when it was struggling to find its voice and move beyond its models. I..] All have a Brahmsian glow, a warmth and elegance of line that make them very pleasant to hear!…]. All these works are worthwhile for the light they shed on a particular period in American classical music-making, and all are notable for showing the extent to which serious American composers of this time period were beholden to the German Romantic compositional and performance traditions.’
-Mark Estren as InfoDad
Engineer, Producer: Dave Schall
Producer, Associated Performer: Solomia Soroka
Associated Performer: Arthur Greene
Music Publisher: public domain
Composer: Rossetter Gleason Cole
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Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 8: II. Scherzo. Presto – Solomia Soroka · Arthur Greene · Rossetter Gleason Cole
Lost American Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1
℗ 2025 Toccata Next, London