Alfred Einstein described the early Sonata for pianoand violin in E minor as ‘one of the miracles amongMozart’s works; it springs from the most profounddepths of emotion, and goes beyond the alternatingdialogue style to knock at those gates of the greatworld of drama which Beethoven was to fling wideopen’.

Wolfgang Redik and Christoph Berner setthis evergreen composition alongside two inspiredminor-key works by Schubert and Beethoven.