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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…

It is a bit of a paradox: one of Dragonetti's showpiece, 'The Famous Solo?, originally for double bass and orchestra, is largely unknown today. This cannot be down to the virtuoso work itself, but is more likely due to the unclear source situation with its different versions. In this edition Tobias Glöckler presents Dragonetti's autograph arrangement for double bass and string quartet for the firs…

Fauré's 2nd Violin Sonata was written in 1916 in Evian and Paris, the first in a series of chamber music works. It is thus one of Faure's late works, characterised by austerity, introspection and the intensity of its expression. It is hard to imagine a greater contrast to the brilliant and ornamental style of the virtuosic 1st Violin Sonata (HN 980), published 40 years earlier. The 2nd Sonata conc…

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When Beethoven visited the director of music at the cathedral in Linz, Franz Xaver Glöggl, in autumn 1812, the latter asked his guest to 'compose socalled Equali for 4 trombones for All Souls' Day [2 November]?. Beethoven readily complied - and it was to be his own funeral music. For in 1827 the Equali were sung in an arrangement for male choir as a 'dirge for Beethoven's funeral procession?. The …

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With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in a strictly motivic way was to be Reger's last opus. Shortly after he had sent it to his publisher, he died of heart attack in May 1916. The quintet was to become his swan song, first performed at a m…

/ Hautbois, Violon, Alto Et Violoncelle

No. 2 In G Major Op. 36. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Bien que le premier sextuor à cordes de Brahms ait connu un vif succès depuis sa parution en 1861, l’éditeur Simrock hésita lorsque le compositeur lui en proposa en 1865 un deuxième «dans le même caractère joyeux». Entre temps Brahms s’adressa même à la concurrence avant que Simrock ne finît par consentir à sa publication. Alors que l’oeuvre fit tout d…

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