Collins/Mccallum - Fritz Hart: Complete Music for violin and piano, Volume One

The composer and conductor Fritz Hart (1874�1949) led a peripatetic life: London-born, he moved to Australia to tour travelling productions of musicals there and in New Zealand. He soon became a formative figure in Australian musical life as teacher and conductor, but in 1936 left to become the first professor of music at the University of Hawai�i and permanent conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. Hart�s three violin sonatas � poised but passionate � reveal a musical language influenced by Debussyan Impressionism but also coloured by his own Celtic roots. Here they receive their first recordings from two of Australia�s most highly regarded musicians, the violinist Susan Collins, in her first appearance on Toccata Classics, and Stephanie McCallum, a Toccata regular.