Henle Horizons

It does not always have to be Sarasate – the "Carmen Fantasy" by Hungarian violin virtuoso Jenő Hubay is also well worth discovering! Composed in 1876/77, it is considered an early example of his mast...

Celebrated as the "King of the Violin", Eugène Ysaÿe influenced modern violin playing like few others. A pupil of Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski, he was also a composer who combined technical brilliance wi...

The "Suite populaire espagnole" by violin virtuoso Paul Kochanski combines characteristic Spanish rhythms with the finest chamber music elegance. The basis is Falla’s song cycle "Siete canciones popul...

His "Perpetuo mobile" is well-known to many violinists: Carl Bohm (1844–1920) was one of the most popular masters of German salon music, and in the late nineteenth century his catchy melodies enraptur...

Countless arrangements and transcriptions allow the Czardas by Vittorio Monti (1868–1922) to shine in ever new tonal colours – yet the original version for violin and accompaniment stands unchallenged...

Schubert’s "Trockne Blumen" rediscovered: this sensitive arrangement by star violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann transports Schubert’s own variations on his song from "Die schöne Müllerin" – for flute an...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

Pablo de Sarasate’s Fantasy on themes from "The Magic Flute" was published in 1908 and is generally considered his last work. The dazzling operatic paraphrase showcases not only breathtaking virtuosit...

Who does not know them, the famous arias from Mozart’s "Don Giovanni", which in their contrasts show the whole gamut of human emotional states? Pablo de Sarasate wove the most popular of these melodie...