Johannes Brahms - Double Concerto [With score]

-Composer: Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) -Soloists: Itzhak Perlman (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) -Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -Conductor: Bernard Haitink -Recorded in 1979 Double Concerto [Doppelkonzert] for violin, cello and orchestra, in a minor, op. 102, written in 1887 00:04 - I. Allegro 16:54 - II. Andante 24:41 - III. Vivace non troppo Brahms wrote this work during the summer of 1887, and conducted the premiere himself on October 18 in Cologne, with Joseph Joachim and Robert Hausmann as, respectively, the violin and cello soloists. Brahms had just turned 20 when he met Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), already a celebrated violinist at 22 and destined to be acclaimed also as a composer, conductor, and educator. It was Joachim who commended his new friend to Robert and Clara Schumann, thereby assuring his celebrity. For 30 years the two were fast friends despite the distance usually separating their power bases: Joachim’s in Berlin