New. Brahms: The Violin Sonatas
Mark Kaplan (violin), David Kaplan (piano)
Mark and David Kaplan respond well to the music's warmth, capturing it with natural rapport. Kaplan père, now in his seventies, has lived long with these pieces, and his experience shows in...
New. Brahms: The Violin Sonatas
Mark Kaplan (violin), David Kaplan (piano)
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Mark and David Kaplan respond well to the music's warmth, capturing it with natural rapport. Kaplan père, now in his seventies, has lived long with these pieces, and his experience shows in...
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Mark Kaplan has long been recognised as one of the world’s leading violinists, across a career that spans decades and a discography of more than forty-five recordings. Here, for the first time on record, he is joined in Brahms’s three violin sonatas by his son, pianist David Kaplan, himself an artist of growing international presence and critical acclaim.
Brahms’s three violin sonatas provide a natural meeting point for this unique collaboration between father and son, shaped by the close and equal dialogue between violin and piano.
Together, they trace a path from the inward lyricism of the G major Sonata, Op. 78, through the warmth of the A major, Op. 100, to the darker, more dramatic world of the D minor Sonata, Op. 108, whose finale ranks among Brahms’s most powerful chamber works.
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August 2026
Mark and David Kaplan respond well to the music's warmth, capturing it with natural rapport. Kaplan père, now in his seventies, has lived long with these pieces, and his experience shows in his control of their ebb and flow; but he is well matched by the playing of his pianist son.