Only Connect - George Shaw <> Joseph Joachim

How are these sitters connected?

 George Bernard Shaw by Sir (John) Bernard Partridge circa 1925 NPG 4228

Joseph Joachim by Sir Leslie Ward published in Vanity Fair 5 January 1905 NPG 4930

The connection
George Bernard Shaw wrote that Joseph Joachim’s playing of the music of Bach was ‘… welcome because it differs from the traditional insistence on hard outline to which we are accustomed.’

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