Brahms: Violin Concerto; String Sextet Op 36 – review

Faust/Mahler CO/Harding(Harmonia Mundi)Apart from the fact Isabelle Faust leads the sextet of strings in Op 36, as well as being soloist in the Violin Concerto, the reasons for pairing these two works by Brahms, composed 13 years apart, remain rather tenuous. The sleeve notes connect them via Joseph Joachim, the violinist for whom Brahms wrote his concerto and who was a constant source of advice on string matters, but the same logic could apply to much of the chamber music. In any case, Faust pl...

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