Come rain or shine, there are always good excuses to play and listen to the music of Brahms. So the Metropolitan Soloists begin this programme with a Sonata for Violin and Piano, also known as the Rain Sonata. It so happens that the last movement recovers the melody of a song that Brahms himself had previously composed about a poem that recalls the rain in his childhood – ‘Fall, rain, fall, / Awaken in me the dreams / I had in childhood, / When the water foamed on the sand!’. They then continue with a Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano composed in 1865 at a spa near Baden-Baden. Unusually, Brahms described its introduction as a morning stroll through the forest, when suddenly a ray of sunshine appears, illustrated by the sound of the horn.

Brahms
Metropolitana’s Soloists

J. Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1
J. Brahms Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano

Daniel Canas horn
Nuno Rodrigues violin
Savka Konjikusic piano