Whenever the topic of violin sonatas arises, there is no escaping discussion of the three big works in this form by Brahms. Indeed, it is arguable, at least, that these three – in G major, A major and ...

Brahms: Violin Sonatas (August in Dumay, Maria Joao Pires; DG). Brahms’ gently reflective side is nowhere better demonstrated than in his three violin sonatas. Dumay and Pires highlight the ...

One advantage of programming an entire recital with a single composer is that it lessens the pressure to make any single piece a summary portrait. At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Sunday, ...

The three violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms make a wonderful recital package, having been presented over the years by such diverse violin-piano duos as Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin, Zino Francescatti ...

It was Schumann's idea that he, Brahms and Albert Dietrich should collaborate on violin sonata for the great violinist Joseph Joachim. The result remained unpublished until 1935, and only Brahms's ...

WITH the best will in the world, I wonder how this disc will fare. The performers are peerless: violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov already have two stunning releases in their ...

Pianist Kim Sun-wook and violinist Guy Braunstein have teamed up to perform Brahms violin sonatas in Korea this week. Braunstein was the youngest person to be appointed concertmaster of the Berlin ...

The fruitful artistic partnership that the British violinist Jack Liebeck has forged with Moscow-born pianist Katya Apekisheva has already fuelled an outstanding disc of Prokofiev, Ysaÿe, Chausson and ...

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Anthony Marwood (violin), Aleksandar Madzar (piano)Wigmore Hall Live WHLive 0050 **** Brahms's three violin sonatas present a fuller picture of the composer than either his three piano sonatas or ...

Brahms’s three violin sonatas are among his sunniest music. Any opportunity to make or renew acquaintance with them is to be seized, but I’m not convinced Liebeck and his accompanist, Katya Apekisheva ...