This is Patrick Newell's 4th role in a filmed version of Sherlock Holmes. He played Inspector Lestrade in the British-Polish series "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" (1979) and in "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985), the latter released the same year as this episode. Newell also appeared in "A Study in Terror" (1965).
In their conversation in the barbers, Holmes tells Dr Watson that he was recalling Joachim fingering his cadenza in the Beethoven violin concerto they saw the previous night. He is referring to Joseph Joachim, the Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer.
While Joseph Joachim did play a violin concerto in London in 1844 at the age of 13 and on a few later occasions, he did not play the music you hear in the soundtrack, or that Brett "plays". Beethoven wrote only one and a half violin concertos...the Violin Concerto in Dmaj and fragment in C. The piece in the soundtrack is from one of Beethoven's symphonies. (The Pastoral) Also Brett cannot play violin but to quote him, "I can't play [the violin], in fact, but I have got pretty skillful at bowing the instrument. Mind you, to give the impression that I know what I'm doing, I do listen to the music for hours beforehand so that I have the feel of it. " His violin performance was dubbed by Katherine Gowers.
The music in the soundtrack does NOT come from the Pastoral Symphony. it is from the opening of the 3rd movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto. This music can be heard on the version of this story both via online streaming and from the MPI issued DVD Box set (c 1983).
The music in the soundtrack does NOT come from the Pastoral Symphony. it is from the opening of the 3rd movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto. This music can be heard on the version of this story both via online streaming and from the MPI issued DVD Box set (c 1983).