Partituras para instrumentos de cuerdas

In the era before Paganini, a brilliant solo cadenza in a sonata or concerto movement for violin was called a 'capriccio'. Practice pieces for string instruments were also given this generic name. The...

Gallant' and 'sensitive' by no means implies boring and old-fashioned. Proof of this is given by Franz (František) Benda, the Bohemian Paganini of the 18th Century. Not only was his life extremely col...

Nicolò Paganini numbers among the few musicians who attained fame by playing and writing for only a single instrument. His works for violin solo are unique, and his appearances as virtuoso fascinated...

Pieza virtuosa en el estilo de una rapsodia húngara", así reza la entrada de Ravel sobre "Tzigane" en el llamado "Bosquejo autobiográfico". Compuesta en 1924, existen tres versiones de esta obra: con...

Bach's E major Violin Concerto has survived solely in the form of a copy, but in view of its significant compositional substance, and of Bach's arrangement (which has come down to us as an autograph)...

For the editor of an Urtext edition, Bach's A minor violin concerto BWV 1041 presents few problems; cleanly-written original parts exist from Bach's Köthen (or early Leipzig) period. But beyond the gu...

The solo parts of this wonderful Double Concerto for two violins and orchestra survive in a faultless fair copy by Bach that was made around 1730. The slow movement is regarded as a melodic high point...

The violin part was edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, who published further Urtext editions by Mozart with Henle Verlag (including the complete sonatas for piano and violin, HN77, 78, 79, 80). The caden...

The violin part was edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, who published further Urtext editions by Mozart with Henle Verlag (including the complete sonatas for piano and violin, HN77, 78, 79, 80). The caden...

In 1838 Robert Schumann complained: 'The piano is becoming too narrow for me. I often hear in my current compositions a lot of things that I can hardly indicate'. Thus, in 1840, Schumann dedicated him...

The 'little' D-major Violin Concerto has no need to hide behind its 'big sister', K. 218. Not only does it challenge the player's technique, it's a masterpiece of the first order. Henle's edition stan...

This is not only Mozart's first concerto for the violin but his first concerto altogether. He composed it at the age of 17, writing it in Salzburg in 1773 two years before his other four violin concer...

For years Henle has been issuing urtext piano reductions of Mozart's works for violin and orchestra at six-month intervals. Now the time has come for the three single movements. These incomparable tre...

Once again, Henle can boast of an important new addition to its Pantheon of great composers: Ernest Chausson. Based on a novella by the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, the Poème for violin and orchest...

The Sonata in G major owes its epithet 'Rain Song Sonata' to two melodies from Brahms' 'Rain Songs' op. 59 nos. 3 and 4 which are quoted at the beginning of the last movement. An ornamental leaf with...

They are in a light style, intended more for use in the home than for concert performance'. Thus Smetana described these two duets in which he memorialised his Bohemian homeland. It is a fact, though...

A pearl in the romantic repertoire, Bruch's 'Romance” has long occupied a permanent place in its original version for viola, whether in lessons or on the concert stage. Our edition is the first to tak...

There is no other chamber-music genre for which Mozart produced so many works - see the sonatas and variations - than that of the duos for piano and violin. He spent a considerable amount of time with...

In 1849 Schumann endowed three wind instruments with chamber music works: the clarinet with the 'Three Fantasy Pieces' op. 73, the horn with the 'Adagio and Allegro' op. 70 and the oboe with the prese...

The genesis of Berg's Violin Concerto in 1935 is shrouded in tragedy. He had only just finished making the first sketches when Manon Gropius - the daughter of Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler, with whom...

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his ten violin sonatas during a period of just fifteen years, between 1797 and 1812. Using our carefully revised two-volume edition of the complete sonatas, the performer ca...

Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saëns expressed his enthusiasm for this work by his friend and...

12 Sonatas, Opus 1 (with Cello ad lib.)