• First scholarly critical edition of this standard work
• Insightful comments on performance practice

Johannes Brahms's violin concerto, written for his friend Joseph Joachim, has remained a standard in the concert literature since its first performance. No scholarly critical edition of this work has ever been published and therefore the many, sometimes conflicting, sources have never been evaluated for a critical performing edition.

Not only Brahms's autograph score, solo part and autog...