Debussy's new string quartet received a very cool reception at its première in Paris in December 1893, performed by the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe. The critics were upset by its unusual harmonies and orchestral sounds, and the musicians who were later presented with it considered it 'unplayable?. Nevertheless the work was able to establish itself in the years that followed and today belongs to the core …

With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in a strictly motivic way was to be Reger's last opus. Shortly after he had sent it to his publisher, he died of heart attack in May 1916. The quintet was to become his swan song, first performed at a m…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Schubert adapta cinq de ses nombreux lieder sous forme de pièces instrumentales. Ainsi, la mélodie de «La Truite», lied composé en 1817, lui servit-elle de thème pour les variations de son quintette pour piano, violon, alto, violoncelle et contrebasse D 667 qui reste l’une des oeuvres les plus populaires de toute la musique de chambre. La tonalité solaire de la pièce – beaucoup…

Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto #1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound different?. Nevertheless, a good 20 years elapsed before that second concerto finally took form, and only in 1881 was he able to announce: 'I wanted to tell you that I have written a very small Piano concerto with a tiny little delicate Scherzo?.Th…

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Huit ans après avoir composé ses deux premières Sonates pour clarinette op. 49, Reger écrivit à une amie qu'il travaillait 'déjà à commettre un nouveau crime à l'égard de l'harmonie et du contrepoint'. L'oeuvre en question était la Sonate pour clarinette et pianoforte op. 107. Reger tenait ici beaucoup à ce que le caractère de musique de chambre ne disparaisse pas sous de trop nombreux ajouts virt…

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Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection, Bach himself called it an 'Instruction? which teaches students and keyboard lovers to 'treat correctly? both two and three voices, to 'achieve a singing style in playing? and to 'acquire a strong foretaste of composition?. To this end, Bach created timelessly beautiful…

Par STRAUSS RICHARD. / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes