Isabelle Faust (violin) and Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 Schumann: Romances (3), Op. 94 F.A.E.-Sonate
A 19th-century ‘trio sonata’. Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have already given us an acclaimed version Brahms’s First Violin Sonata, in 2007. They now complete the cycle with the other two sonatas of 1886 and 1888, and add a fascinating rarity dating from 35 years earlier: the ‘F-A-E’ Sonata, a collaborative effort by three composers in honour of the great violinist Joachim, who had to guess who had written which movement! He did so with ease, for the Scherzo is as eminently Brahmsian as the Intermezzo and Finale are Schumannesque.
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