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The Sonata in G major owes its epithet 'Rain Song Sonata' to two melodies from Brahms' 'Rain Songs' op. 59 nos. 3 and 4 which are quoted at the beginning of the last movement. An ornamental leaf with...

A pearl in the romantic repertoire, Bruch's 'Romance” has long occupied a permanent place in its original version for viola, whether in lessons or on the concert stage. Our edition is the first to tak...

There is no other chamber-music genre for which Mozart produced so many works - see the sonatas and variations - than that of the duos for piano and violin. He spent a considerable amount of time with...

In 1849 Schumann endowed three wind instruments with chamber music works: the clarinet with the 'Three Fantasy Pieces' op. 73, the horn with the 'Adagio and Allegro' op. 70 and the oboe with the prese...

The genesis of Berg's Violin Concerto in 1935 is shrouded in tragedy. He had only just finished making the first sketches when Manon Gropius - the daughter of Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler, with whom...

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his ten violin sonatas during a period of just fifteen years, between 1797 and 1812. Using our carefully revised two-volume edition of the complete sonatas, the performer ca...

Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saëns expressed his enthusiasm for this work by his friend and...

Johannes Brahms's organ works in a sense 'frame' his whole oeuvre. He wrote several preludes and fugues and the chorale prelude 'O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid' in the mid-1850s, at a time when he was mak...

Robert Schumann revered Johann Sebastian Bach and his polyphonic style throughout his life. Thus the 'Six Studies in Canonic Form' op. 56 and 'Four Sketches' op. 58 for pedal piano, which are reminisc...

Apart from his organ sonatas, Felix Mendelssohn also composed numerous other works for the king of instruments. The present volume focuses on a selection of eight works from Mendelssohn's maturity, in...

Max Reger, the creator of forbiddingly difficult organ music, could also take a different tack. His 'Thirty Little Chorale Preludes' are intended for semiprofessional organists always on the lookout f...

This volume brings together central works to Reger's output for the organ, such as the popular 'Introduction and Passacaglia' in d minor, which Reger wrote as a benefit-work to assist towards the rebu...

When the 'Palais du Trocadéro' was built in 1878 on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris, the first large concert organ in France was given pride of place in the 'Salle des Fêtes'. Franck wro...

Liszt composed this virtuoso work for the dedication of the refurbished organ in Merseburg Cathedral. The manuscript was, however, only completed after the inaugural concert and the first edition was...

Leoš Janá?ek composed his Suite for wind instruments Mládí (in English youth) in 1924, so when he was over 70. Numerous sources still survive for this work, making it difficult to establish the defini...

For a long time, Swedish composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell was considered an insider tip among clarinetists, but his concertos have now found their way onto concert stages. No wonder, given the ravishi...

Following our edition of the Grand Concerto in f minor op. 5 (HN1209), we are expanding our series of Crusell's clarinet concertos to include the one in B flat major op. 11. The Swedish composer was h...

Beethoven's importance as the creator of monumental orchestral works and of substantial chamber music and solo sonatas is so great that his rich song oeuvre is often hardly even noticed. But his Liede...

Beethoven's importance as the creator of monumental orchestral works and of substantial chamber music and solo sonatas is so great that his rich song oeuvre is often hardly even noticed. But his Liede...

'Yet you, a man, have sensed in these songs a depth which hardly the most knowing female heart can feel!' Thus an admirer wrote to Robert Schumann concerning his song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Schu...

Bach's harpsichord concertos have proven extremely popular, though several were originally written as concertos for another solo instrument - either violin or a woodwind instrument. But we know nothin...

The chamber music combination of mandolin and piano has a special tonal charm: the silvery sound of the mandolin blends in an entirely unique manner with the piano. In around 1800, these timbres inspi...