SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-217-7

ISBN 9790501792177.

The Piano Trio No. 1 presents itself as an opulent work of chamber music written for the classical instrumentation piano, violin and cello. Conceived by a composer who for decades was considered the most able performer all over Europe, one may expect a piano part that does not allow one moment of ennui. The soloist challenges are evenly distributed, including the beautiful singing phrases of the menuetto movement. A perfect example of upscale entertainment music, that might have been performed at Kalkbrenner's own soirees to the delight of nobility and noblesse, the first piano trio will serve as ideal complement to any romantically oriented chamber music repertoire.

SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-128-6

ISBN 9790501791286.

With not so much as a single wasted note in this entire composition the twentieth sonata is an object lesson in the qualities of composition which characterised the very best of the High Classical period. Elegant, confident, expressive and profoundly musical, the grande sonata composed for his childhood mentor Bernhard Romberg and redolent with the influence of his other teacher Beethoven, still has the capacity to transport us into the sound world of an exciting musical age, an age that ushered in the Romantic era in no uncertain terms.

SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-126-2

ISBN 9790501791262.

Although Reissiger is best remembered as a composer of opera, he wrote over 200 works in the genres of sacred music, chamber music and music for the theatre. He was acclaimed during his lifetime, but his star waned after his death, eclipsed by more stellar musical personalities such as his great rival, Wagner. Reissiger's Grande Sonata is a mature work that recalls the Classical form at its most elegant and merits the attention of any cellist seeking a satisfying concert work.

SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-106-4

ISBN 9790501791064.

Famed for his romantic wildness and massively popular in his day, Ferdinand Ries composed the 5th Grand Trio in f minor towards the end of his life. A mature and substantial piano trio, it stands along side and equals any of those by his former piano teacher, Beethoven. A serene and expansive work in four movements from a master of the form, it is quite possibly the last of nine that he wrote.

SKU: BQ.979-0-50179-205-4

ISBN 9790501792054.

The Rondo op. 2 was composed in a phase in Vorisek's life, when everything indicated, that his career as musician and composer was going to be outstanding. He had been newly appointed first conductor of the recently founded ''Musikverein'' and stood at the center of the development of that kind of chamber-music euphoria that defined Viennese music culture of the period. As a pianistic bravura piece the composition invites to join in for a feast of chamber music, optionally with violin or cello as partner. The vocal-like coloratura passages of the theme bring in an atmosphere of ''Italianita'', inspired by a famous ''Arietta da camera'', the Bolero of Gaetano Piantanida, that was often performed in music salons of Vienna.

SKU: A0.1179053

Classics for Cello - Clair de Lune

CLASSICS FOR is a collection of simplified arrangements (in easy keys) of the most popular classical music, featuring sheet music for more than fifteen different instruments.