Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonate pour violon n° 3 en ré mineur, op. 108

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Sonate pour violon n° 2 en sol majeur, op. 13

Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sonate pour violon n° 1 en fa mineur, op. 80

Erick Friedemann, violon
James Dick, piano
Anne Epperson, piano

The three Sonatas recorded in concert in 2001, three years before his death and when the first effects of the cancer that was to take his life were beginning to affect him, show him to be as virtuoso as ever, his touch assured, his bow uncluttered, but what is most surprising is the sheer beauty of his sound, the elegance of his phrasing, the delicacy of his interpretations, which make you weep to have so little of his own.