Brahams/ Shaham/ Erez - Violin Sonatas Fulfilled By AEC Bartok/ Pacific Quartet Vienna -

Bartok/ Pacific Quartet Vienna - Pannonische Klange

Menno de Jong

After avoiding pop

focusing now on his own projects and the results show an emerging artist that has finally come into his own

Brahams/ Shaham/ Erez - Violin Sonatas Fulfilled By AEC Bartok/ Pacific Quartet Vienna -Johannes Brahms (1833 97) was uncompromisingly self critical about his musical achievements and was only too aware of the long shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven over his creative output. He had composed his Scherzo in C minor in 1853 for a violin sonata collaboration with Robert Schumann and Albert Dietrich, but he had discarded four sonatas for piano and violin before he was sufficiently happy to allow a work in that genre, his Sonata No. 1 in G major