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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Mendelssohn's viola sonata is one of his many early works which remained unpublished in his lifetime.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...

At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns showed a particular fondness for the violoncello. He completed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after finishing his first cello concerto...

This brief, utterly charming and tuneful piece was probably committed to paper in 1894, though Fauré based it on an older version for cello and organ. The subsequent tempo change to 'Andante quasi All...

Without a doubt, Dvořák's melodious cello concerto numbers among the most popular of its kind. It is hard to imagine that the Musical Times harboured little hope that it would remain in the repertoire...

After the first cello sonata of 1872 (HN 1057) quickly became popular, the publisher kept urging the composition of a second sonata for this instrumentation. But it was not until March 1905, in the mi...

Immediately after finishing his second Violin Sonata op. 108, Fauré started work on a sonata for cello and piano in early 1917, thus realising a long-conceived plan. In their predisposition and attitu...

In contrast to the first cello sonata (HN1357) composed four years earlier, this substantially more catchy and playful second sonata enjoyed great success with audiences and critics right from the sta...

Pocos meses después de terminar su Sonata para violonchelo op. 6, Strauss compuso otra obra para este instrumento: una Romanza para violonchelo y orquesta, que permaneció inédita en vida. Según el man...

De las cinco sonatas para violonchelo de Beethoven, la Grande Sonate op. 69, publicada en 1809, no sólo es la pieza central, sino también la más significativa musicalmente. El ingenioso acoplamiento d...

Escritas en 1815, las dos Sonatas op. 102 marcan la transición hacia las sonoridades a menudo austeras del estilo tardío de Beethoven. Un crítico de la edición original señaló en 1818 que 'sin duda se...

Escritas en 1815, las dos Sonatas op. 102 marcan la transición hacia las sonoridades a menudo austeras del estilo tardío de Beethoven. Un crítico de la edición original señaló en 1818 que 'sin duda se...

Al igual que la Salut d'amour de Elgar, las dos "chansons" figuran entre sus melodías más populares. La ensoñadora Chanson de nuit y su alegre homóloga Chanson de matin se interpretan a menudo juntas....