"The Brahms especially receives a spacious, warm performance, the interweaving of the two instruments revealing some of the work's treasures which in lesser hands can become elusive." Liverpool Daily Post
The Brahms Sonata is a staple of the clarinet repertoire, and is joined on this disc by a natural successor, Reger's heavily Brahms-inspired work. Both are late works in each composer's output, the Brahms representing a culmination and distillation of his mature style, while Reger lights the way forward to Webern and post-modernism.