Amadeus

First Edition.

First edition

The sonatas belong to the best of the Gebrauchsmusik in Rosenmüller's wake. Characteristic is the pseudo-polyphonic writing in dualism with concertante solemn homophonic intermediate movements.

An 'original' borrowing of the piece for viola and cello and piano, which is in no way inferior to the string version and acquires a distinctive tonal note in the instrumentation with harp.

A sonorous jewel by the great clarinettist of the Meininger Hofkapelle. The touching, simple singing of the slow movement is unparalleled.

The arrangement of Bach's 5th organ trio sonata for strings and suspended bass is ideally within the range of the violin and viola; octave shifts were not necessary.

Bach's 4th organ trio sonata, originally in E minor, was transposed by a third to C minor, and thus ideally adapted to the range of the violin and viola.

Edited from the original edition-

First Edition

Version alternative with narrator

One of the few works in the literature that fully captures the low registers of viola and cello. Easy to perform.

Hummel counts among the brilliant pioneers of an epoch who 'with passionate, subjectively excited, fantastic expression precede the High Romantic diction by decades'; his clarinet quartet bears witnes...

Frist Edition

Edited from the first Edition.

First Edition

Leclair's best-known trio sonata captivates with its grace in the thematic penetration of the upper voices and the partnered singing. Indispensable.

Schaffrath's contemporaries praised 'the beauty and popularity of his works', even extolling them in the same breath as those of Bach, Telemann and Handel. There is something to it ...