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The early Piano Sonata op. 4 offers interesting insights into the young Chopin's compositional development. In all probability written during his student years at the Warsaw Conservatory and highly pr...

Haydn only made piano arrangements of his own works in very special cases. The popularity of his hymn 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser' (God Save Emperor Francis) did not simply occasion him to write th...

When he switched from the harpsichord to the fortepiano in the 1780s, Joseph Haydn found he had a rich palette of sound colours and dynamic variations at his disposal, and he employed them enthusiasti...

Franz Xaver Mozart was W. A. Mozart's youngest son. Intended for a career in music by his mother from the very beginning, he followed in his father's footsteps but was not able to step out from under...

Along with the beautiful facsimile edition of the autograph score to be published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's birth (HN 3221), we are also publishing a completely rev...

The 'Valses oubliées' belong to Liszt's late work, characterised by themes such as memory, sorrow and grief. They do not form a cycle but were written as separate pieces between 1881 and 1884. The tit...

Often referred to by pianists as the 'Dante Sonata', it is the closing piece in the second volume of the 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 174) and is now finally available as a single edition. In 1839, whil...

Liszt's piano cycle 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses' (HN 639) was inspired by religious-philosophical poems of the French Romantic Alphonse de Lamartine. Whereas the cycle as a whole remained comp...

Gracias a su hábil combinación de melodía romántica y virtuosismo chispeante, el Concierto para contrabajo op. 3 de Koussevitzky ha sido una de las obras más populares de su género desde su estreno en...

In the late 1850s, when Rossini was composing only for his own private pleasure, he wrote a little elegy for double bass and piano that he entitled 'une larme' ('a tear'). Its theme also served as the...

Thanks to its wealth of invention, elegant workmanship, and technical and musical challenges, Franz Anton Hoffmeister's Concerto 'no. 1' has emerged as the preferred concerto for double bass auditions...

The Dittersdorf Concerto 'E major' is probably the most frequently performed and best-known work for double bass ever: musically delightful, full of technical and tonal finesse. It has rightly become...

Following Dittersdorf (HN759) and Hoffmeister (HN721), Johann Baptist Vanhal and his sole double-bass concerto add a further highlight to the classical bass literature in our catalogue. The virtuoso w...

A principios del siglo XVIII, la flauta de pico gozaba de gran popularidad como instrumento solista para aficionados. Entre ellos se encontraban también las princesas de la corte inglesa, para cuyo en...

At the beginning of the 18th century, the recorder enjoyed great popularity as a solo instrument for amateurs. Among these were also the princesses of the English court, for whose musical entertainmen...

Mendelssohn's viola sonata is one of his many early works which remained unpublished in his lifetime. The autograph is dated 'd. 14 Febr. 1824'. Thus Mendelssohn was 15 years old when he completed the...

Hummels 'Potpourri' for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player's core re­pertoire, especially in its shortened version, the 'Fantasy'. Sprinkled with quotes from operas by Mozart and...

J. S. Bach's three gamba sonatas belong among the core repertoire of this low string instrument. They hark back to other works of his that were originally for different performing forces. What they al...

Las dos Sonatas op. 5 fueron escritas en 1796 expresamente para la actuación del joven Beethoven con el virtuoso violonchelista Jean Louis Duport en la corte de Berlín. Que no se viera eclipsado por e...

Dvořák had previously written solo music for Hanus Wihan, later the dedicatee of his cello concerto. When he was planning a trio concert tour for 1892 with Wihan and violinist Ferdinand Lachner and ne...

Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, 'Kol Nidrei' numbers among Max Bruch's most famous compositions. The melancholy 'Adagio after Hebrew melodies' was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert...

Edvard Grieg's only Cello Sonata remains one of the best kept secrets among cellists. Grieg wrote it for his brother John, an accomplished player of the instrument. Though not a string player himself,...

This composition for violoncello and piano in the style of a Sicilian dance is from Gabriel Fauré's middle creative period and was first published simultaneously in France and England in 1898, reflect...

After the great success of his Élégie (HN 563), Fauré's publisher Hamelle urged him to write another, similarly effective piece for cello and piano. Papillon was probably already composed in 1884, tho...

This single-movement sonata for cello and piano, Evgeny Kissin's Opus 2, evokes a sombre, melancholic ballad. The approximately ten-minute work from 2016 places high demands on both instrumentalists i...