For a long time, Johannes Brahms shied away from tackling the genres of symphony and string quartet. His three piano sonatas, on the other hand, posed fewer challenges: in the early 1850s, the young composer offered them to the world as a musical statement that still impressed the radical composers of the Second Viennese School half a century later. In her solo recital, Elisabeth Leonskaja juxtaposes the two first sonatas, which open Brahms’s official catalogue of works, with Alban Berg’s Opus 1 and Anton Webern’s Piano Variations.