Parry is not popularly known as a composer of chamber music; yet his contributions to the genre span his entire career. Of particular historical-musical interest are his works for violin and piano, from the early Freundschaftslieder — amongst the first works Parry completed in adult life — to the two Suites, published in 1907. These show a wide range of aspects of Parry’s multifaceted character: the generously-spirited young man, acknowledging his debt to Brahms and Schumann in the Sonata in D minor; the warm-hearted family man shown in the Twelve Pieces for Violin and Piano, which are dedicated to his wife and his two daughters; and the musical experimenter that is seen in the Fantasie-Sonate in einem Satz, in which Parry, inspired by the Piano Concerto of Xaver Scharwenka, combines four tautly-unified movients in a single, 14-minute work. The recording also features a number of intriguing and characterful miniatures which were discovered among the composer’s manuscripts in the Bodelian Library, Oxford.