REVIEW: Brahms Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin

Review of my recent performance, with Korbinian Altenberger, of the complete piano & violin sonatas of Brahms.

I have been a sufficiently devoted life-long lover of Brahms’s music to have written a book about it, yet this duo’s performances of all of his works for piano and violin (the traditional titling order that he was one of the last composers to go on using) came as a revelation. Brahms has been celebrated over the years for a number of characteristics, but the sort of sheer dazzling sonic imagination the players found in these four works has not commonly been among the qualities singled out for praise.
— Bernard Jacobson, Seen and Heard International