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When Chopin left with George Sand for his oft-cited winter sojourn on Mallorca in autumn 1838, he also took his second ballade with him, which was not yet finished. Chopin's health and other unfavoura...

Chopin was probably the first to apply the word 'ballade' to music', Robert Schumann once wrote. He and his contemporaries were only familiar with the term 'ballad' as a literary generic concept. Poem...

With this poetic masterpiece all four of the recently revised 'Ballades” (HN 862) are now available as single editions. Following a restrained opening in C major and the first dreamy sounds of the the...

No other great composer has left so many works for piano four-hands as Franz Schubert - altogether 54 (32 of these with opus number): fantasies, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas etc. - Pla...

The early Piano Sonata op. 4 offers interesting insights into the young Chopin's compositional development. In all probability written during his student years at the Warsaw Conservatory and highly pr...

Haydn only made piano arrangements of his own works in very special cases. The popularity of his hymn 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser' (God Save Emperor Francis) did not simply occasion him to write th...

When he switched from the harpsichord to the fortepiano in the 1780s, Joseph Haydn found he had a rich palette of sound colours and dynamic variations at his disposal, and he employed them enthusiasti...

Franz Xaver Mozart was W. A. Mozart's youngest son. Intended for a career in music by his mother from the very beginning, he followed in his father's footsteps but was not able to step out from under...

Along with the beautiful facsimile edition of the autograph score to be published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's birth (HN 3221), we are also publishing a completely rev...

The 'Valses oubliées' belong to Liszt's late work, characterised by themes such as memory, sorrow and grief. They do not form a cycle but were written as separate pieces between 1881 and 1884. The tit...

Often referred to by pianists as the 'Dante Sonata', it is the closing piece in the second volume of the 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 174) and is now finally available as a single edition. In 1839, whil...

Liszt's piano cycle 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses' (HN 639) was inspired by religious-philosophical poems of the French Romantic Alphonse de Lamartine. Whereas the cycle as a whole remained comp...

In the late 1850s, when Rossini was composing only for his own private pleasure, he wrote a little elegy for double bass and piano that he entitled 'une larme' ('a tear'). Its theme also served as the...

Thanks to its wealth of invention, elegant workmanship, and technical and musical challenges, Franz Anton Hoffmeister's Concerto 'no. 1' has emerged as the preferred concerto for double bass auditions...

The Dittersdorf Concerto 'E major' is probably the most frequently performed and best-known work for double bass ever: musically delightful, full of technical and tonal finesse. It has rightly become...

Following Dittersdorf (HN759) and Hoffmeister (HN721), Johann Baptist Vanhal and his sole double-bass concerto add a further highlight to the classical bass literature in our catalogue. The virtuoso w...

At the beginning of the 18th century, the recorder enjoyed great popularity as a solo instrument for amateurs. Among these were also the princesses of the English court, for whose musical entertainmen...

At the beginning of the 18th century, the recorder enjoyed great popularity as a solo instrument for amateurs. Among these were also the princesses of the English court, for whose musical entertainmen...

J. S. Bach's three gamba sonatas belong among the core repertoire of this low string instrument. They hark back to other works of his that were originally for different performing forces. What they al...

This composition for violoncello and piano in the style of a Sicilian dance is from Gabriel Fauré's middle creative period and was first published simultaneously in France and England in 1898, reflect...

After the great success of his Élégie (HN 563), Fauré's publisher Hamelle urged him to write another, similarly effective piece for cello and piano. Papillon was probably already composed in 1884, tho...

This single-movement sonata for cello and piano, Evgeny Kissin's Opus 2, evokes a sombre, melancholic ballad. The approximately ten-minute work from 2016 places high demands on both instrumentalists i...

At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns showed a particular fondness for the violoncello. He completed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after finishing his first cello concerto...

This brief, utterly charming and tuneful piece was probably committed to paper in 1894, though Fauré based it on an older version for cello and organ. The subsequent tempo change to 'Andante quasi All...

Without a doubt, Dvořák's melodious cello concerto numbers among the most popular of its kind. It is hard to imagine that the Musical Times harboured little hope that it would remain in the repertoire...