Brahms Beyond Mastery - His Sarabande and Gavotte, and its Recompositions

Among the early works of Johannes Brahms are the neo-baroque Sarabande and Gavotte. These dances have not been properly recognised as constituting a distinct Brahms’ work before now, but manuscript evidence and their performance history indicate that Brahms thought of them as such in the mid-1850s. He later suppressed the dances, using them instead