Carl Maria von Weber's Concerto in f minor is among the compositions of first rank for solo clarinet and is permanently established in the world's concert repertoire. For purposes of comparison, Norbe...
Sonata quasi una fantasia' was the title given to it by Beethoven, and yet the world of music knows it as the 'Moonlight Sonata' - an epithet that was already around during the composer's lifetime. 'T...
In a span of only eight years, between 1794-1802, Beethoven composed twenty piano sonatas, among them his so-called 'Grande Sonate Pathétique' op. 13. It marks the consummation of his Classical style,...
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini was his last and at the same time most significant work for piano and orchestra. As a cycle of variations on Paganini's 24th Caprice from op. 1, i...
For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the stan-dard starting-point for any serious study of the...
A pearl in the romantic repertoire for viola and orchestra! Bruch's 'Romance' has long occupied a permanent place in the viola repertoire, whether in lessons or on the concert stage. Our edition is th...
Now the Concertino and the First Clarinet Concerto are about to be followed by Weber's Second Concerto in E-flat major, edited by Norbert Gertsch. Once again, the piano reduction contrasts the origina...
First came Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas, then Nicolò Paganini's caprices. Now, with the op. 27 sonatas of Eugène Ysaye, the key works in the repertoire for unaccompanied violin are ava...
In 1919-20 George Gershwin was making a name for himself with Broadway songs and a first show of his own in New York. But he was already attracted to the world of classical music - a world he would en...
Beethoven's three piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the musical world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote...
