'Ton plat préféré contre notre musique préférée', c'est ainsi que l'on pourrait intituler la genèse inhabituelle de ces deux morceaux de concert. En effet, lorsque les deux Baermann, le clarinettiste Heinrich Joseph et son fils Carl, qui joue aussi du cor de basset, s'arrêtent en 1832 chez Mendelssohn, ils concluent un curieux marché: ils promettent à leur ami compositeur une belle portion de deux…

Johann Sebastian Bach is more or less the alpha and omega of piano playing: there is hardly a piano pupil who did not start off with his little preludes or his inventions. And almost all pianists regard his Well-tempered Clavier as an unsurpassed highpoint in the history of piano music. Our volume follows these well-trodden paths, but not without the occasional sideways glance at some less promine…

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'Something quite curious, I believe? - it was thus that Robert Schumann described the Concert Piece for four Horns and large orchestra in a letter, and he did indeed break new ground with this work as far as the scoring and treatment of the instruments was concerned. When it was composed in 1849, the French horn was still fairly new, enabling players to play previously unheard-of runs and free mod…

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