GLADYS NOON (Violin)
BERTRAM HARRISON (Pianoforte)
THIS sonata seems actually to picture summer, as indeed it should, for it was written by the Lake of Thun during months of sunshine in 1886. For that reason it is known as the ' Thun ' Sonata, and is generally accepted as the finest of the three that Brahms wrote. During that summer, the Widmanns, friends of Brahms, were at Bern, not far off, and they oiten made visits to one another. The Widmanns, in fact, kept open house, and many musical people were to be met there. It was at the house at Bern that this sonata was first performed. Widmann himself was so impressed that he wrote and inscribed a poem to the work.