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Hummels 'Potpourri' for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player's core re­pertoire, especially in its shortened version, the 'Fantasy'. Sprinkled with quotes from operas by Mozart and...

Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, 'Kol Nidrei' numbers among Max Bruch's most famous compositions. The melancholy 'Adagio after Hebrew melodies' was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert...

Joseph Haydn's concertos for violoncello and orchestra stand out for their lightness and elegance. The Concerto in C major Hob. VIIb:1 was most likely written between 1762 and 1765, when Haydn was alr...

Edvard Grieg's only Cello Sonata remains one of the best kept secrets among cellists. Grieg wrote it for his brother John, an accomplished player of the instrument. Though not a string player himself,...

Anyone who loves Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata will sooner or later come across Nikolay Myaskovsky – one of the leading figures in early twentieth-century Soviet music. Myaskovsky studied with Rimsky-Ko...

Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturnes number among the most intimate and at the same time most artistic examples of Romantic piano poetry. Composed between 1830 and 1846, they reflect Chopin’s mature expressive...

A few years ago we published the 'Elephant' from the 'Carnival of the Animals'. The curtain now rises for a further performance: the proud and elevated solo of the 'Swan'. Charles-Joseph Lebouc organi...

Robert Fuchs (1847–1927), playfully nicknamed the "Serenade fox" (fox is Fuchs in German) by his contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms, is largely unknown today. He owes his posthumous fame above all...

Popular epithets of classical works often do not stem from the composer – but in the case of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, it is different: "Pastoral Symphony or Recollections of country life. More an e...

In the 1910s, a romantic infatuation for the harpist Eleonora Damskaja moved the young Sergei Prokofiev to compose three short pieces for harp and dedicate them to her. Two of these compositions later...

Two of Joseph Haydn's three concertos for horn and orchestra have been lost, while two further horn concertos have often been mistakenly ascribed to him. Haydn's sole surviving horn concerto, whose au...

Along with Robert Schumann's identically titled op. 73, the Fantasiestücke of 1864 by the Danish composer Niels Wilhelm Gade are an essential part of the repertoire of all clarinettists. Gade lived in...

In a letter to Erwin Schulhoff, Berg bitterly complained about his unsuccessful attempt to find a publisher for his 'Pieces for Clarinet', 'Once again at my own expense! A few antique pieces in my apa...

'Oboe Concerto 1945, inspired by an American soldier, (oboist from Chicago)' - was what Richard Strauss noted down. And the oboist and soldier with the American occupation John de Lancie had indeed as...

More than a few experts and aficionados count Mozart's string trio in E-flat major K. 563 among his most magnificent compositions. This masterwork, entered into Mozart's own catalogue of works on 27 S...

Erwin Schulhoff’s String Duo for Violin and Cello, composed in 1925, is the perfect example of the modern, adventurous compositional style of the "Roaring Twenties". In this radical work, the Czech-Je...

The Passacaglia by Johan Halvorsen is a musical masterpiece full of virtuosity and emotional depth; in an exciting manner, it blends Handel’s Baroque style with Halvorsen’s Romantic tonal language. Th...

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances ar...

Encouraged by Muzio Clementi, the head of a distinguished publishing house in London, Beethoven transformed his Violin Concerto into a Piano Concerto, but retained the cadenzas to the first and third...

Bach's six violin soli have come down to us in a particularly beautiful fair copy made by the composer himself. They, along with the six cello suites, are regarded as musical and technical milestones...

Three violin concertos by Joseph Haydn survive, of which the ones in C major and A major were written at the court of Prince Esterhazy. The violin concerto in G major Hob. Vll:4 was probably composed...

The violin part was edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, who published further Urtext editions by Mozart with Henle Verlag (including the complete sonatas for piano and violin, HN77, 78, 79, 80). The caden...

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...

Brahms' only violin concerto was given a very warm reception by his contemporaries and has been an important piece in the violin repertoire ever since. It bears witness to Brahms' fruitful collaborati...

Jules Massenet is considered one of the great masters of French opera. Thanks to its emotional expressiveness, the famous "Méditation" from his opera "Thaïs" (1894) remains one of the most popular wor...