In this American Journey, violinist Arnold Steinhardt performs some of his favourite twentieth-century works for violin. From the ‘indigenous’, Negro spiritual nature of the African-American Henry Thacker Burleigh’s Southland Sketches, to the Latin-American dances forming the second half of the programme, we are treated to examples of the delightfully rich and varied landscape of American classical music. This recital also includes Leonard Bernstein’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, composed at the age of 21.