Max Bruch composed these eight, highly romantic pieces for his son Max Felix, a talented clarinettist. In order to enable the work to be played more w...More
Max Bruch composed these eight, highly romantic pieces for his son Max...
Max Bruch composed these eight, highly romantic pieces for his son Max Felix, a talented clarinettist. In order to enable the work to be played more w...More
Max Bruch composed these eight, highly romantic pieces for his son Max...
When Dvořák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in January 1878, the heyday of the great wind serenades and “Harmoniemusik” wind...More
When Dvořák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in J...
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) is a symphonic poem for orchestra composed by Claude Debussy. The piece, whi...More
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fa...
Composed for clarinet, cello, and piano, the Clarinet Trio (BH 12624) is a piece in three movements, with a total length of 20 minutes. The first move...More
Composed for clarinet, cello, and piano, the Clarinet Trio (BH 12624) ...
The quintet begins with a muscular, motoric theme: a five-note motto that spawns related thematic variations and permutations across the entire work. ...More
The quintet begins with a muscular, motoric theme: a five-note motto t...
The middle work in the three late chamber music sonatas was composed in spring 1915, directly after the cello sonata (HN 633). The innovative combinat...More
The middle work in the three late chamber music sonatas was composed i...
ohannes Brahms’s late chamber works are surely among the most splendid music ever written for the clarinet. In the last years of his life, Brahms se...More
ohannes Brahms’s late chamber works are surely among the most splend...
Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter with the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired him so much that he produced s...More
Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter...
It is hardly surprising that Beethoven did not write any more chamber music for winds after 1800. Following the change to middle-class musical culture...More
It is hardly surprising that Beethoven did not write any more chamber ...
Penderecki has already added a cadenza to Haydn's Trumpet Concerto to our successful Cadenza series. What was so special about it was the use of the t...More
Penderecki has already added a cadenza to Haydn's Trumpet Concerto to ...
The trio sonata, a musical form that was popular in the 17th and early 18th centuries, was written for two solo melodic instruments and basso continuo...More
The trio sonata, a musical form that was popular in the 17th and early...
The Quartet in C major begins with an Allegro moderato in the unusual 3/8 time signature, followed by a classical minuet in C with a trio in F. This i...More
The Quartet in C major begins with an Allegro moderato in the unusual ...
Heimo Erbse war Sohn eines praktischen Arztes. Er besuchte an seinem Geburtsort ein Gymnasium, welches er vor seinem Abitur verlassen musste, da er si...More
Heimo Erbse war Sohn eines praktischen Arztes. Er besuchte an seinem G...
Devienne was born in Joinville, as the youngest of fourteen children of a saddlemaker. After receiving his first musical training as a choirboy in his...More
Devienne was born in Joinville, as the youngest of fourteen children o...
Bach expert Klaus Hofmann presents a valuable addition to the Bach repertoire: he has taken J.S. Bach’s Violin Sonata in A major BWV 1015 and recons...More
Bach expert Klaus Hofmann presents a valuable addition to the Bach rep...
Connesson studied the piano, music theory, music history and choir conducting at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt and com...More
Connesson studied the piano, music theory, music history and choir con...
Born in Lucerne, Diethelm studied at the Conservatory and the School of Church Music there (now both divisions of the Lucerne Musikhochschule). He stu...More
Born in Lucerne, Diethelm studied at the Conservatory and the School o...
Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist and teacher who was little known in his lifetime but has won many admirers in recent years. An intros...More
Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist and teacher who was l...
