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On 18 May 2006 a manuscript was auctioned at Sotheby's that made chamber musicians prick up their ears. Shortly before his death, Max Bruch composed three works for strings which he was no longer able...

Although Schumann's first attempts at composing for this supreme form of chamber music in 1838/39 were only fragments, the three String Quartets op. 41 in a minor, F major and A major were written in...

No music lover can remain untouched by the emotional quality of this work, composed in Schubert's last year. The monumental weight of the outer movements, the intimate lyricism of the 'Adagio', as wel...

Divertimento en re mayor K. 136 (125a) - Divertimento en si bemol mayor K. 137 (125b) - Divertimento en fa mayor K. 138 (125c). Urtext de la Nueva Edición Mozart - Divertimenti en re mayor K. 136 (125...

The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

The circumstances in which these poetic 'Soirée Pieces' (thus their original title) came into being are quite surprising. In 1849 Dresden was seized by violent political turmoil that ultimately forced...

First came Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas, then Nicolò Paganini's caprices. Now, with the op. 27 sonatas of Eugène Ysaye, the key works in the repertoire for unaccompanied violin are ava...

Reducción para piano del compositor

Published in early 1806, Kreutzer's '40 Études ou Caprices' for violin - there are 42 today - are the product of his years-long employment at the Conservatoire de Paris and are the most comprehensive...

Inspirado por las sonatas para violín de Béla Bartók, Ravel planeó su propia sonata para violín y piano en 1922, pero al principio no pasó de los esbozos. Tras varias interrupciones, la obra no se ter...

Beethoven's Spring Sonata is one of his happiest creations. Violinists and pianists alike love its truly spring-like grace, inwardness, spirit and power. Early reviewers underscored the fact that the...

Las dos Romanzas para violín y orquesta de Ludwig van Beethoven en sol mayor op. 40 y fa mayor op. 50 son piezas solistas gratificantes que exigen una técnica virtuosa y sensibilidad artística. Su est...

Durante décadas, la edición de Henle de esta obra maestra del repertorio violinístico ha sido de rigor para todos los violinistas serios. Ahora la presentamos con un texto revisado que refleja los últ...

Debussy had intended to write a cycle comprising six sonatas. However, as he was seriously ill, he was forced to conclude it with the third one. Whereas the Sonata for Cello and Piano and the one for...

Dvorák's famous Symphony from the New World abounds in melodic turns and phrases that call up the atmosphere of 'Indian melodies' and spirituals. Among them are pentatonic (five-tone) tunes, and synco...

Antonín Dvorák's chamber music output comprises over forty works. That he became known so quickly beyond the borders of Bohemia was due not least to the many discerning music aficionados who enjoyed p...

Following Paganini's death, numerous musicians strove to assume his position as the 'devil's violinist', but none of them were able to do so as convincingly as the Spaniard Pablo de Sarasate. His uniq...

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...

Eduard Hanslick, a much feared critic in his time, was not very complimentary following its première: the violin was no longer being played but rather 'pulled about, torn asunder, beaten black and blu...

'I would gladly have done some more fiddling, but I was accompanied so badly that it gave me the colic.' Thus Mozart, writing to his father on 16 October 1777. He would probably have taken great pleas...

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...

Grieg's Third Violin Sonata is one of his major creations and stands alongside the sonatas of Johannes Brahms and César Franck at the pinnacle of late nineteenth century chamber music. One small measu...

The Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra, perhaps Lalo's best-known composition, is found in the repertoire of violinists everywhere. The première on 7 February 1875 was greeted by storms of a...

Now, for the first time, Henle publishes an urtext edition of this famous violin concerto (it is also the first German edition). The detailed preface provides exhaustive information on the work's gene...