Listening to Brahms's Piano Quintet in its earlier incarnation as a Sonata for Two Pianos can sometimes be a disconcerting experience. …David Nettle and Richard Markham… deliver a performance that is remarkable for its clarity of line, precision of ensemble and variety of tonal colouring. The accompanying works on this disc are no less impressive: warmly affectionate accounts of the Five Waltzes and a vividly characterised version of the Haydn Variations.