Wolf. Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas....
which was created during the height of the Second World War. Works for wind instruments are rare in Prokofiev’s catalogue, and it took little effort on the part of David Oistrakh to convince the composer to rework the sonata for violin. He made a...