Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez - Brahms & Joachim: Hungarian Dances

The forty-year friendship between Brahms and Joseph Joachim, violinist and composer, was one of the most significant and fruitful relationships in nineteenth-century music. Their admiration of each other�s artistry was profound and unwavering, and bore sustained creative fruit on Brahms�s side of which his Violin Concerto and Double Concerto are only the most famous examples.Joachim�s transcriptions of Brahms�s famous Hungarian Dances�originally written for piano duet or solo piano�are technically challenging for any violinist, and superbly idiomatic, constituting a kind of gypsy �Art of the Violin�. They represent the summit of Brahms�s �Hungarian� art, and Joachim�s powers of transcription match them with violin writing of the greatest fastidiousness and authentic feeling. The brilliant Hagai Shaham, acclaimed for his recordings of Hubay, is the ideal performer.