Brahms (Wiechert): Violin Sonata No. 1 G Major, Op. 78 (violin) HENLE ward0526 medium-narrow

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and with fingering by the British violinist and Elgar scholar Rupert Marshall-Luck

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Brahms (Wiechert): Violin Sonata No. 1 G Major, Op. 78 (violin) HENLE ward0526 medium-narrowBrahms's First Violin Sonata in G major is also known by the sobriquet Regenliedsonate (Rain Sonata) because its final movement quotes melodic motifs from his two songs Regenlied and Nachklang (which likewise has rain as its subject). The dotted opening motif of the finale already pervades the first two movements, thereby contributing to the inner cohesion of this wonderfully expressive, elegiac work. Brahms's contemporaries enthusiastically received