Mykola Koliada is sadly one of Ukraine's forgotten composers. He died tragically young, only 28, in a mountaineering accident but left behind some highly original works that showed an entirely different aspect to Ukrainian modenism. Taking Ukrainian folk music as his bedrock material, he worked in elements of impressionism, polytonality, jazz and early minimalism to create his highly original scores. His Violin Sonata was completed in 1930 just weeks before the brutal Soviet clampdown and suppression of Ukrainian intellectual life and society. As such, this sonata points to a type of music that would be made almost impossible to compose or be heard in the decades ahead. A unique document from very troubled times.