Arthur Sergeyevich Lourie was a Russian composer who later adapted the stage name Arthur Vincent in honor of Arthur Schopenhauer and Vincent van Gogh. This highly complex, exciting music, in the hands of a veritable master of the keyboard, Benedikt Koehlen, whose recording of the entire piano works of Karl Amadeus Hartmann on the Telos label has retained benchmark status.

The sonatas for piano and violin by Joseph Haydn have, up to now, barely been featured in concert programs, a fate they share with the sonatas of Johann Christian Bach and the early sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These works of beautiful violin and piano sonatas will leave the listener wanting more.