Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Violin in D minor by Benjamin McLean - complete

[@James-ll3jb]

Eminently likeable!

[@cflhighlights9370]

Some very big double stops in the second movement.

[@benjaminpiano3110]

The violinist is absolutely at liberty to play large double stops as arpeggios or broken chords :)

[@benjaminpiano3110]

If you’re a violinist and want to play this piece I can arrange it with smaller intervals 😊

[@dp6740]

Hello ​@@benjaminpiano3110, hope you doing well, in measure 5 to 7 there's a double stop that is actually very uncomfortable for violinist in Geral that is the A in the G string and the C on the D String, it's not impossible to play on the violin, I mean it's a tenth, in many system scales there's always a section dedicated to this , but after the Bb that it's already a extension to the 4th finger, I don't think that is a good choice to do such a big interval, maybe octaves would help to emphasize more the harmony and the direction of the phrase, and it would be more confortable for the player, because it's a similar pattern for the fingers. In meause 8, the A and E it's impossible to play, and it would actually require an string crossing, I don't know if that was your initial ideal. I'm not saying to you to rewrite your piece, none of that, you have made a pretty good work, it's just a point of view from a fellow violinist, Best wishes.

[@benjaminpiano3110]

@@dp6740thanks very much for your comment 😊😊 if I wrote this piece again it would be very different and not have such large intervals. I think your suggestion of using octaves in certain measures is a very good one - I should really rewrite this piece!! 😅😅