Sandro Fuga inherited a passion for art and music from a family line which includes the composer Luigi Nono. He felt himself part of a long tradition, seeing music as the expression of emotions and refusing to join in with avant-garde “musical clownery”. The First Sonata is unusual in form, its dramatic, agitated central movement flanked by slow movements of great emotional intensity. The Second Sonata is more elegiac, though not without virtuoso dialogue and a spectacular conclusion. By turns melancholy and strikingly luminous, the Third Sonata is filled with genuinely moving impressionistic meditations.