Renowned jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and Swiss pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck join forces once again after their groundbreaking album The Chopin Project — this time to pay tribute to another giant of European Romantic music: Johannes Brahms. For this special project, Rosenwinkel and Brodbeck are joined by the brilliant young Swiss bassist Lukas Traxel and drummer Jorge Rossy, one of the leading figures in both the Spanish and American jazz scenes. Together, they explore the depth and beauty of Brahms’ music through a unique jazz lens, blending classical tradition with modern improvisation. Brodbeck's new arrangements take up the yearning melodies and classical-romantic harmonic structures of Johannes Brahms and find a new form of expression with these familiar and selected compositions. Rosenwinkel's wide-ranging bows and the expressiveness of his playing once again come to the fore in a powerful way on this recording. In addition, Brodbeck's selected orchestrations with the rhythm team Traxel-Rossy move within an extremely song-serving framework.

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