Between Heaven and Earth: A Year with Brahms

Violinist Tekla Cunningham and pianist Sheila Weidendorf return to their pandemic project and share a survey of the Brahms violin sonatas, exploring 19th century performance practices. Tekla and Sheila spent the first year and more of the pandemic immersed in the violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms, meeting weekly during the pandemic to form a micro-music pod. The lockdown has forced all of us indoors and inwards, and this time of reflection and deepening has been transformative one both personally and musically for this project. What began as personal exploration quickly became a chrysalis for transformation as the musical journey deepened over the course of the year together.