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On 31^st March, 2014, the international release of an album, which I think will delight all the music lovers who are Brahms` fans, will takes place: the album contains musical works for violin and piano of the well-known romantic German composer and are conducted by two of the most interesting conductors nowadays: the violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the pianist Yuja Wang. The album contains two movements: the Scherzo movement from the FAE Sonata and the one from Wiegenlied together with three of Johannes Brahms` sonatas for violin and piano.

I think it is a bold gesture to record three of Brahms` sonatas on the same album, because there are already so many remarkable recordings on the market; for example, the latest recordings interpreted by Ithzak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim, Anne Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis.

It is a challenge to perform one of Johannes Brahms` sonatas, no matter the violinist and Leonidas Kavakos faced this challenge last autumn, by recording at the Decca recording studio the Concert for Violin and Orchestra composed by the one and only Johannes Brahms.

Leonidas Kavakos

I saw Leonidas Kavakos perform in Bucharest, as well, the latest event being the 2013 'George Enescu' International Festival, where he performed the same Brahms concert. In his early time, he also recorded some of Enescu`s works and played together with the pianist Peter Nagy. He is one of the most appreciated violinists worldwide; he played with the most important orchestras and won many awards with his albums. His first album was recorded at the Decca recording studio in 2013 and contained the complete collection of Beethoven`s sonatas for piano and violin, which was also broadcast on Radio Romania Music.

Yuja Wang

Before this album, I hadn`t heard Yuja Wang perform chamber music as another interpreter's partner, because all her previous albums were either solo piano works, or concertant ones. I think that Yuja Wang is a valuable new figure in the chamber music industry - in fact, I confess that I like more the way in which she linked the pieces on her album, than the way the violinist Leonidas Kavakos did, because he seemed too preoccupied with thoroughly solving the technical problems of the scores, whereas Yuja Wang had a more accurate way of expressing and a gentle and cooperative way of being.