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Gather Disc 2 (2021)

After arriving unannounced at the doorstep of Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms developed a deep−and often complicated−friendship with the couple. One immediate result of their close bond was the F-A-E Sonata, a work for violin and piano composed collaboratively by Robert Schumann, Brahms, and Albert Dietrich. On Disc 2, we hear Brahms’s fiery Scherzo movement from this sonata, a treasure of the violin-and-piano literature. Pianists owe a greater debt still to Robert and Clara Schumann: Clara, one of her generation’s greatest piano virtuoso, inspired her husband’s Piano Quintet, which stands as the point of origin of a grand repertoire tradition. Disc 2 concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, one of the Czech composer’s most popular creations. | Liner Notes

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