A Certain Affinity Extraordinary violin sonatas - recommended by GERALD FENECH 'Auerbach and Pierce give scintillating performances throughout ...'

This CD is indeed a mixed bag, albeit a very interesting one. The composers hail from four different periods of European music: Mozart; the classical era, Tartini; the baroque, Brahms; the romantic and Haba; the twentieth century, but all share a certain affinity, as all four wrote for the violin in a most extraordinary way.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed more than thirty sonatas for violin and piano, although nearly half of these date from his childhood days...

JOSHUA PIERCE

MSR CLASSICS

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

JOHANNES BRAHMS

NEW YORK

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

VIOLIN MUSIC

PIANO MUSIC