The Making of a Masterpiece
The Joy of Six: Brahms and Strauss by Professor Christopher Hogwood. The choice of instrumental grouping can make or break a composition; the string sextet, a notoriously difficult combination, takes on a forward-looking guise with Strauss in probably the most exquisite of all music designed to be played off-stage, while Brahms looks back to the baroque with his solutions: sonority is the key. (from gresham.ac.uk)
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