Sonata for violin and piano in E minor, op. 82 II. - Romance: Andante

Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Violin Sonata in minor, Op. 82, in 1918, at the same time as he wrote his String Quartet in minor and his Piano Quintet in minor. These three chamber music works were all written at "Brinkwells", the country house near [bad word] in West Sus that Lady Elgar had acquired for her husband to recuperate and compose in, and they mark his major contribution to the chamber music genre.[1] His Cello Concerto in minor of 1919 completed the quartet of introspective and melancholy works that comprised Elgar's last major creative spurt before his death in 1934.