Opus 118 Nr. 2. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. When his contemporaries heard the works that Johannes Brahms had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893 – the Piano Pieces op. 118 –, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the first to be allowed to get to know the new pieces, and she attested that they contained “a wealth of sentiment in the smallest of dimensions”. Philipp Spitta fitting…

La Sonate pour violon et piano de Fauré vit le jour dans les années 1875/76 et inaugura la renaissance de ce genre dans la musique française. Dans un compte rendu, Saint-Saëns fit part à son ami et élève de son admiration pour cette oeuvre: 'On trouve dans cette sonate tout ce qui peut séduire: la nouveauté des formes, la recherche des modulations, des sonorités curieuses, l'emploi des rythmes les…

Quand Smetana, en 1876, termine son Quatuor en mi mineur sous des couleurs tristes et sombres, il est déjà atteint par la surdité. Quel musicien ne connaît pas ce passage fatidique du 4e mouvement, où Smetana symbolise par une note ultra-aiguë au violon le début de sa maladie? Les mouvements précédents sont consacrés aux stations plus heureuses de sa vie - la préface de notre édition cite un passa…

Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. revised edition of HN 290/ Répertoire / Piano

Mozart wrote the five Divertimenti for Wind Sextet between the years 1775 and 1777 when he was living in Salzburg. The Italian title is reminiscent of simple 'light? music, but the pieces' melodic ingenuity and colourful writing for winds show it to be chamber music of the highest quality. Our edition is based on the autograph and brings together all five authentic sextets in one practical edition…

Le travail moyenne dans les trois dernières sonates de musique de chambre a été composée au printemps 1915 directement après la sonate pour violoncelle (HN 633). La combinaison innovante de sons - un instrument à vent, un instrument à cordes, et un instrument à cordes pincées - contribue grandement à l'impression de mélancolie contenue. Debussy lui-même confirmé, en disant: 'C'est terriblement tri…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

/ Orchestre

/ Conducteur Et Rapport Critique

/ Livre

Herttrich Ernst (Editor) - Schilde Klaus (Editor). Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. After an early work and a discontinued attempt in 1831/32 Mendelssohn made his breakthrough in this important chamber music genre in the summer of 1839 with the Piano Trio in d minor op. 49, which was to be followed six years later by the Trio in c minor op. 66. On publication of the first trio, Schumann took the o…

/ Livre

/ Piano

The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave the way to the great symphony? in spring 1824. At the same time he was paving his way to a wider audience, as the 'Rosamunde? Quartet was the first and only string quartet that was not only publicly performed in Schubert's lifetime but also published in parts. It is fortunate for us that this was the case …

Revised edition of HN 1169 without fingerings. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. All piano students are familiar with Bach's two-part Inventions - but virtuosos of the keyboard also keep coming back to these timelessly beautiful but by no means easy works. It is hard to believe what Bach was able to express using only two parts! In his famous preface the composer himself calls the work an 'Instruction” w…