In 1918, the 21-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold received a commission to write incidental music for a Vienna production of Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. Wartime restrictions, along with the intimacy of the theatre, with its small orchestra pit, necessitated that the work be scored for a chamber ensemble which Korngold then transformed into a suite and finally rearranged for solo violin and piano. Mendelssohn’s F major sonata is something of a concerto for both instruments while remaining true to the form. Owing much to Beethoven, the result is both coherent and exhilarating.