ROSLAVETS Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 4 and 6 Naxos 8.557903 [TT 70 mins] Try first the forthright Mazurka (last of the 3 Dances; the first is a Waltz "if you listen closely"!) before sampling Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets' attractively meandering sonatas. The most radical of them is the first (1913), contemporaneous with late Scriabin and having something in common with his music. For Roslavets' cello sonatas and piano trios see the reviews in Gramophone.
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