Renaud Capuçon, María Dueñas, Timothy Ridout, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Denis Kozhukhin perform Brahms

At their brand-new concert hall, La Source Vive, specifically designed for exceptional chamber acoustics, the 2026 Rencontres Musicales d’Évian welcomes world-renowned musicians for two unmissable all-Brahms chamber programs. In this first volume, violinist María Dueñas and pianist Denis Kozhukhin open with Brahms’s Third (and final) Violin Sonata. Premiered in 1888 by Brahms himself with the great Joseph Joachim, the virtuosic sonata is more tonally abstract and thematically darker than his previous two Violin Sonatas written around the same time. Sensational soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Renaud Capuçon, and violist Timothy Ridout then join forces for Brahms’s powerfully intimate Third Piano Quartet. Originally written in 1856 amidst Brahms’s infatuation with composer Clara Schumann, the final version — now moved down a semitone into the mournful key of C minor — was revised and finished 20 years later, yet retains clear allusions to the tempestuous, turbulent passions of the young composer.

Catch Emanuel Ax, Renaud Capuçon, and more in another exceptional Brahms chamber concert at the 2026 Rencontres Musicales d'Évian here!