Brahms, Johannes - Violin Sonata in A major op. 100

During a summer stay in Thun, Switzerland, Brahms composed a whole series of chamber music works in 1886, including the Second Violin Sonata in A major. This wonderfully lyrical work is one of his most cheerful creations - biographer Max Kalbeck wittily called it a 'love and song sonata'. In the secondary theme of the first movement, Brahms quotes the head motif from his own song Wie Melodien zieht es mir, but the other movements are also characterised by heartfelt melodicism. The close cohesion of the compositional structure was already recognised by the music critic Eduard Hanslick: The musical text of this revised Urtext edition is based on the newly compiled volume of the New Brahms Complete Edition - a guarantee of the highest scholarly accuracy. Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen, two true masters of their craft, contribute helpful fingerings.