Jenna Sherry & Dániel Lőwenberg - Sonatas For Violin And Piano (CD)

These intimate and nostalgic sonatas bid farewell to the rich musical legacy of late RomanticismAmerican violinist Jenna Sherry and Hungarian pianist Dániel Lőwenberg perform Johannes Brahms's two late sonatas (op. 120) and Ernő Dohnányi's violin-piano sonata (op. 21) on the latest classical release on BMC Records. Brahms's late style was the musical mother tongue of the young Dohnányi, creating a continuity that comes into focus while listening to the album. In their own different ways, these intimate and nostalgic sonatas all bid farewell to the rich musical legacy of late Romanticism at the turn of the 20th century in ''blissful peacetime''Passing, saying goodbye, mourning, retrospection. These feelings characterize the sonatas of Brahms and Dohnányi, interpreted by Jenna Sherry and Dániel Lőwenberg on this album. In the case of Johannes Brahms, the immersion in the past and valediction is also accounted for by biographical facts: the aging composer was about to retire when