Pianist Kathrin Isabelle Klein launches her Sonatamania series with two landmark Romantic sonatas written in the long shadow of Beethoven. Schumann's Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 11 — composed over four years and bound up with his love for Clara — is a work of burning intensity and bold modulation. Brahms's Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5, the last and grandest of his piano sonatas, brims with the ardour of a twenty-year-old already speaking in a mature voice. Together they capture a generation's ambition to make the sonata new.