Violin Sonata op. 1

My op. 1 Violin Sonata is an extended single movement, full of passion and virtuosic writing, all in the late Romantic style. You can readily hear my love for the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, even Rachmaninoff. The different sections of the piece ascend chromatically from G minor all the way up to D minor. Richard Buell from the Boston Globe observed:  

To be present was to be reminded again that today's music speaks in many different voices, some of them intent on sounding like yesterday's. Russell Steinberg's lush and warmly romantic Violin Sonata could have come right out of the mid to late-19th century; its expressive vocabulary, which manages to avoid anachronism or camp, might have appealed to such virtuosi as Jan Kubelik or Eugene Ysaye.

This recording was from the premiere in Boston at the first NuClassix concert in the 1980s, when I was studying for my Masters degree at the New England Conservatory. Jennifer Moreau was a talented violinist from New Zealand studying Violin Performance at NEC at the same time.