Recordings

Helena Marsh of the Meridian Musical Times called the piece "restless yet luminous" a work that keeps searching until its final, hard-won stillness.

Tom Purdom of the Broad Street Review called this work "one of the big moments in my decades of concert-going" — poetry and passion that recalls Brahms while remaining distinctly original.

The piano sonata is the cornerstone of Maneval's solo keyboard output — Bernard Jacobson of the Philadelphia Independent praised it for "giving each short piece its own distinct character within a cohesive whole."

Written for violinist Diane Monroe, this sonata inhabits Maneval's characteristic "discreetly extended tonality" — tonal centers that shift and breathe without ever fully departing from the lyric tradition.