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Timothy Ridout, Daniel Blendulf and Denis Kozhukin join the Dutch violinist for intensely passionate performances of Brahms chamber works. 

After urban Debussy and Adams, the duo settles for autumnal Brahms and a day in the countryside.

An enthralling afternoon on London's Southbank as Lawrence Power and Pavel Kolesnikov perform all Brahms' sonatas for violin and viola. 

Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya’s marathon of Brahms sonatas showed off the composer at his most lyrical and dramatic. 

Danish violinist Znaider with Kulek delivers a capricious Beethoven sonata no. 2 and zany Shostakovich preludes, while the Brahms sonatas do not fully convince. 

Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang play all three of Brahms' sonatas for violin and piano in one evening, without ever looking at each other. They did not seem to need to.

Other than the gigantic Salle des Combins, a semi-permanent white tent seating a couple of thousand, the major venue for the Verbier Festival is the local église, perched higher up the mountains than the main square. Marked by a tall bell-tower shaped like a cross, the hall is prowlike, dark, and claustrophobic, enlivened only by coloured slits of light coming from behind the audience.