Hiller's 'romanticizing' Andante is one of the valuable instrumental pieces frequently requested in church music. Triggers a festive mood!
The self-critical works impress with a great variety of forms, harmonics and invention, the utility works of his contemporaries excel. Repertoire.
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The operas 1 to 6 form a rich palette of about 60 solo, trio and quadro sonatas, which, because they are easy to perform and enjoy playing, are highly suitable for didactic purposes as an introduction...
No virtuoso superstructure disturbs the harmonic and instrumental balance in his works conceived for the most varied instrumentations, among which our D minor Sonata is to be accorded a pleasurable pr...
The trio, written in 1814, is entirely in the spirit of a 'late' rococo divertimento, playful and virtuosic at the same time.
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The work, which is committed to the expressive forms of the late Viennese classical period, is characterized by finely chiseled thematic formations as well as a varied and harmonically cleverly modula...
Crusell's three clarinet quartets are among the summit works of their genre. They are required reading for every clarinetist. Op.2 was written in 1812.
First published in 1878, Op.31, a sequence of 9 movements, are well-formed melodic reminiscences of the Moravian homeland, whose caprices of sound leave nothing to be desired.
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Rarely has a work fused compositional sophistication with elements concertante for all three players in such a grateful manner, to the point of contentiousness and lamentation in counterpoint.
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His clarinet duo is charming and of playful elegance, which, like his trio for 2 clarinets and viola (Amadeus BP 779), is excellently suited as a recital piece in lessons.
With the present 'Idylls' Rolla, who occasionally appeared as a viola virtuose, left a charming, well-sounding little 'introductory' cycle for the viola.
Source: 'Six Duo Dialogues par M.Cambini oeuvre 49 / Chez M.Boyer, Paris'
Kuhlau's op. 90 is one of the masterpieces that in melodic and instrumental balance combines poetry and elegance with brilliance and virtuosity in the most natural way. Indispensable for the concert!
The language of Mozart flows through the elegant, always playful parity of the work of the 'Mozart pupil', without touching his spirit: the dawning romanticism breaks through all too clearly. Suitable...