The first three movements of Johannes Brahms' E minor Cello Sonata were composed in 1862, the last movement was written in 1865. During the first years of its performance the work was received with mixed enthusiasm. By the end of Brahms' life, however, it was widely performed and by the first decades of the 20th century it was firmly embedded in the repertoire of many distinguished cellists. It wa…

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. The Piano Pieces Op. 119 are less a loose collection of pieces than a self-contained cycle. Johannes Brahms's piano work reach their conclusion and fulfilment in these pieces, and the forebodings of death in the E-flat minor Intermezzo Op. 118 #6 are metamorphosed into late-Romantic otherworldliness. Johannes Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann about the Intermezzo Op. 119 #1: 'I a…

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. It remains unclear when exactly Brahms drafted vio…

Barenreiter Urtext Edition of Brahms' Sonatas In F Minor And E-Flat Op.120 for Clarinet and Piano.Features:A pioneering Urtext edition with an extensive Performance Practice CommentaryFor further information on Romantic performance practice we recommend the text booklet: ?Performance Practices in Johannes Brahms? Chamber Music? BA 9600Brahms had already announced his 'retirement' from composition…

Music Minus One Violin-Here are many of the best-loved melodies by the 'three B's' for violin and orchestra. Suitable for a range of technical levels they will challenge and delight any violinist amateur student or professional for years to come. The solo parts are performed by American violinist Geoffrey Applegate then you take his place in these beautiful classics alongside maestro Emil Ka…

A wonderful composition written between 1855 and 1876 and in part it is a return to the Baroque Symphonic tradition. It is a solemn piece that seems to reflect the tortuous period of its creation the terminal insanity and later death of his friend and mentor Robert Schumann. At times ominous building to climactic heights where other times it is warm and uninhibited this is a spectacular wor…

Having been the conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for many years Carl Reinecke was one of the most important figures among musicians in the second half of the 19th century. His three sonatas for Violoncello and Piano are of amazing musical quality which puts them right up with sonatas of Johannes Brahms. It is all the more surprising however that a noteworthy Urtext edition of these…

La musique des grands maîtres a longtemps été l'objet d'étude par des musiciens à travers le monde. Malheureusement, ces pièces sont souvent trop difficiles pour les jeunes joueurs à réaliser. Avec ce nouveau livre de musique de Beethoven, Brahms, Clarke, Grieg, Haydn, Strauss, Mozart et Purcell a été arrangé dans un format qui convient pour le jeune instrumentiste. / Hautbois / 24 pages / niveau …