Brahms - Violin Sonata D Minor op. 108

Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Brahms - Violin Sonata D Minor op. 108 
Martin Helmchen (Fingering)
Frank Peter Zimmermann (Fingering and bowing for Violin)
For Violin and Piano
with marked and unmarked string parts
Level: difficulty
Pages 64
Code No. HN 1570

Brahms completed his Violin Sonata in d minor op. 108 in 1888. 

This Third Sonata is his only one in a minor key, and stands in stark contrast to its two predecessors, the cheerful and lyrical Sonatas in G major and A major.
Cast on a large scale, its four movements are full of tense drama, technically and musically demanding in equal measure and crowned by a brilliant finale that Brahms’s contemporaries admired for its “tempestuous” character.