The Cello Sonata in G minor is a work by John Ireland, composed in 1923 and premiered on 4 April 1924 by Beatrice Harrison and pianist Evlyn Howard-Jones at the Aeolian Hall, London.
[1] Harrison then performed it again at the Salzburg ISCM Festival in August the same year.
[2] Lionel Tertis made an arrangement for viola in 1941 and played it with Ireland at one of the wartime National Gallery concerts that year.
[3] There are three movements: Moderato e sostenuto (which begins quietly but with an important four-note motif that informs the rest of the work); Poco largamente, a lyrical, pastoral movement in the key of Eb; and (without a break) the lively Con moto e marcato, returning to G minor.
[4] Pablo Casals also thought highly of the piece, but political circumstances prevented him performing it at the time.