Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in F, Op. 120

Johannes Brahms?s Piano Sonatas opp. 1 2 and 5 were among the first works that the 20-year-old composer published. They were composed in 1852/53 although the Sonata in f-sharp minor was apparently the first of the three to becomposed as it was finished by November 1852. This work has a special place in his oeuvre. Besides its passionate atmosphere his contemporaries discerned it to be ?serious and dignified in character?. Brahms dedicated thissonata to Clara Schumann whose husband Robert wrote to the composer that ?Your second sonata my friend has brought me much closer to you?. The ingenious fingerings have been provided by the pianist Andreas Boyde a recognisedBrahms expert.

Sonata WoO postum for Violin and Piano-Edited by Clive Brown and Neal Peres Da Costa with an Urtext solo part as well as a second part with performance markings.Johannes Brahms The Works for one Instrument and Piano:Johannes Brahms? compositions for one instrument and Piano have been standards in chamber music literature ever since their inception. These works were written with specific performers in mind and Brahms worked closely with them when refining the final texts. Nevertheless we rarely approach the music taking into consideration the possibilities of the instruments for which Brahms wrote or the performing practices of the individual playerswho first performed these compositions including Brahms himself.The New Urtext Editions:Bärenreiter?s pioneering new scholarly-critical editions of Brahms? works for one instrument and Piano are edited by a team of musicologists who are also performers. They offer today?s musicians not just a reliable musical text based on all known sources but also a comprehensive approach to the works which aims to place them in their historical context and to elucidate the complex of meanings that the composer wished his notation to convey to performers.In addition to the musical text these editions offer an informative Introduction laying out the genesis publication history and reception of the works. At the same time there is a complete list of the sources an explanation of the editorial procedures and a Critical Commentary. Also each volume contains a detailed discussion of specific performing practice issues raised by individual works.An integral part of Bärenreiter?s Brahms publication complex is a text booklet which approaches general performance practice issues of the 19th century with regard to e.g. tempo rubato rhythmic flexibility and articulation. Furthermore musicians will find valuable information concerning vibrato portamento and bowing. Last but not least characteristics of Brahms? own Piano playing as well as that of his circle and contemporaries are discussed.The Violin and Viola sonata editions come not only with an Urtext part freed from all editorial emendations but also with an

This treasury of 38 works for solo piano spanning forty years of Brahms' long and prolific life includes the famous 'Edward' ballade; two capriccios; seven Hungarian Dances in the composer's own transcriptions for solo piano; six intermezzos; three rhapsodies; the complete sixteen waltzes op. 39; Sonata no. 3 the best known and most mature of Brahms' three piano sonatas; and the complete books of two legendary works the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel and the celebrated and dramatic Variations on a Theme by Paganini. Sometimes termed the 'Romantic Classicist' Brahms successfully merged the seemingly contradictory qualities of romanticism and classicism blending poetry with elegance balance and restraint. A fine inexpensive compilation of piano classics reproduced from authoritative scores this volume will delight intermediate and advanced pianists.

Brahms composed his ?Violin Sonata In A Major? during the summer of 1886. The work quickly became part of the standard repertoire and has remained so until today. It is presented here in a fine Bärenreiter Urtext edition and comes with an unmarked Urtext part as well as a second part marked with fingering and bowing by Clive Brown which are based on the practices of Brahms? contemporaries.An important part of this edition is the extensive preface. Firstly it informs about the works? origins its compositional process pre-publication performances its publication history as well as early reception. Truly remarkable is theunique Performance Practice Commentary. Here the editors take the premise that already a few decades after Brahms? death a widening gulf developed between the composer?s expectations and the performance practices of the early 20th century. In a very concrete and practical way the editors summarize some of the key issues in understanding Brahms? notation with regard to rhythm and timing dynamics and accentuation dots and strokes slurring and non legato Piano pedalling and overholding Piano arpeggiation and dislocation string instrument fingering string instrument harmonics and vibrato. In this way the edition offers an exciting and often surprising insight in Romantic musical interpretation.A pioneering Urtext edition.With an unmarked Urtext part.With a second part including fingering and bowing based on the practices of Joseph Joachim and other contemporaries of Brahms.With an extensive Performance Practice Commentary.For further information on Romantic performance practice we recommend: ?Performance Practices in Johannes Brahms? Chamber Music? text booklet BA 9600.

With opuses 1 2 4 5 and 10 this volume contains virtually all of Johannes Brahms??? early piano oeuvre with which the budding composer and pianist introduced himself to the public. The Scherzo op. 4 from 1851 stands alongside the sonatas composed between 1851???53 as a substantial single movement that particularly delighted Robert Schumann leading him to direct the public???s special attention to his young colleague in his famous article ???New Paths??? in 1853. Written the following year the Four Ballades op. 10 complete the volume. Already they strike a new more Romantic note that Brahms described to Clara Schumann thus: ???They are not very difficult and even less difficult tounderstand???. This Urtext edition offers a revision of the musical text based on the new Brahms Complete Edition with an extensive preface by editor Katrin Eich. With opuses 1 2 4 5 and 10 this volume contains virtually all of Johannes Brahms??? early piano oeuvre with which the budding composer and pianist introduced himself to the public. The Scherzo op. 4 from 1851 stands alongside the sonatas composed between 1851???53 as a substantial single movement that particularly delighted Robert Schumann leading him to direct the public???s special attention to his young colleague in his famous article ???New Paths??? in 1853. Written the following year the Four Ballades op. 10 complete the volume. Already they strike a new more Romantic note that Brahms described to Clara Schumann thus: ???They are not very difficult and even less difficult tounderstand???. This Urtext edition offers a revision of the musical text based on the new Brahms Complete Edition with an extensive preface by editor Katrin Eich.

Sonata for Piano and Violoncello in F major op. 99-Les sonates pour violoncelle de Brahms comptent peut-être parmi les plus belles pages jamais écrites pour cet instrument. La parution de ces deux pièces dans la nouvelle édition complète des ?uvres de Brahms est l?occasion pour nous de publier une nouvelle édition Urtext de la Sonate en Fa majeur. Comptant parmi les «classiques» de notre catalogue (jusqu?à présent HN 19) celle-ci est nouvellement gravée d?après les derniers résultats de la recherche et enrichie par des informations détaillées de Johannes Behr sur la genèse et le travail éditorial. La partie de piano et celle de violoncelle sont doigtées. Une partie de violoncelle sans doigtés est également jointe.

The E minor Cello Sonata is the first work for one solo instrument and Piano which the meticulous composer also had printed. In summer 1865 Brahms offered it to the publisher Simrock as a sonata “whose twoinstruments are both absolutely easy to play” – and rightly so: contrary to the later F-major Sonata op. 99 (HN 1135) this early sonata is technically less demanding yet musically more striking at the same time sothat it is a hit with amateurs and professionals alike. This Henle edition is based on the new Brahms Complete Edition and thus boasts besides in-depth comments a musical text revised according to the latest scholarlyfindings; as always the Cello part is enhanced with additional markings.

Le chef d'orchestre de l'Orchestre du Gewandhaus de Leipzig depuis plusieurs années, Carl Reinecke était une des figures plus importantes parmi les musiciens dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Ses trois sonates pour violoncelle et piano sont de qualité musicale étonnante qui les place à droite jusqu'à avec des sonates de Johannes Brahms. Cependant, c'est autant plus étonnante, qu'une édition urtext remarquable de ces oeuvres n'existait pas jusqu'à présent - violoncellistes a souvent eu à se replier sur les copies des premières éditions seulement quelques-uns qui étaient existantes. Cette lacune est désormais fermée par la Wiener Urtext édition - droit à temps pour le 100e anniversaire de la mort du compositeur. Il englobe tous les trois sonates en un seul volume, ajoutant ainsi trois chefs-d'oeuvre de la musique de chambre romantique à l'inférieur à un répertoire exhaustif du XIXe siècle pour violoncelle et piano. / Violoncelle Et Piano

Sonatas for Piano and Violin-Johannes Brahms s?int?ressa tr?s t?t au genre de la sonate pour violon. ? l?automne 1853 il proposa ? un ?diteur de Leipzig une sonate pour violon en la mineur. L??uvre ayant ?t? refu-s?e il semble que le compositeur tr?s critique envers lui-m?me l?ait ensuite d?truite de ses propres mains. Ses trois grandes sonates datent de sa maturit? l?op. 78 des ?t?s 1878 et 79 les opus 100 et 108 de l??t? 1886. Le scherzo en ut mineur constitue la contribution de Brahms ? la sonate pour violon ?crite conjointement avec Robert Schumann et Albert Dietrich en 1853 en guise de cadeau surprise pour le violoniste Joseph Joachim. Elle est connue sous le nom de sonate F-A-E(fa-la-mi). Avec ses contrastes marqu?s entre l?Allegro v?h?ment et le Pi? moderato d?une grande sensibilit? ce mouvement de scherzo constitue un morceau de bravoure tr?s appr?ci?.

for Violin and Piano-Brahms had already announced his ?retirement? from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld?s much admired playing and inspired him to write two Clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year.Brahms conceived an alternate version of the works for Viola from the beginning and already before the publication of these two versions he intended to do another one for Violin a version which was to require changes and was to result in an independent edition. While the Clarinet and Viola versions havedeveloped a rich performance tradition the Violin version is almost unknown. Yet for the Violin version the composer revised the original Clarinet part much more extensively than he did for the Viola version and also rewrote the Piano part to achieve a thoroughly convincing Violin and Piano idiom. This Bärenreiter edition aims to bring the neglected Violin Sonatas Op. 120 back into players? hands.An important part of this edition is the extensive preface. Firstly it informs about the sonatas? origins their compositional process pre-publication performances their publication history as well as early reception. Truly remarkable is the unique Performance Practice Commentary. Here the editors start from the premise that already a few decades after Brahms' death a widening gulf developed between the composer's expectations and the performance practices of the early 20th century. On the basis of manifold sources which include memoirs by pupils and chamber music partners treatises and essays early instructive editions and historical recordings the editors deal with key issues in understanding Brahms' notation. By a section-by-section analysis of rhythm and timing dynamics and accentuation dots and strokes slurring and non legato Piano pedalling and overholding Piano arpeggiation and dislocation string instrument fingering string instrument harmonics and vibrato the editors provide an indispensable assistance for a historically informed interpretation of the works.At the same time the edition offers an exciting and

La Sonate opus 5 est le dernier volume dans trois sonates pour piano le nouveau, centenaire Wiener Urtext édition de Johannes Brahms. Il suit les mêmes normes de rédactionnelles que les éditions des précédentes deux sonates, opus 1 et 2 de l'Opus. Les notes de rendement contiennent des renseignements précieux sur jouant de la technique, pédaler, tempi et solutions proposées aux passages problématiques. / Piano / Partition