Serenade op. 6: String Orchestra: Study Score

Urtextausgabe-In his Serenade no. 2 op. 16 composed in 1858 60 Johannes Brahms keeps to the usual smaller scoring for this genre using pairs of winds and horns as well as low strings (no violins!).?His friendClara Schumann was ?delighted? with the work but the public reaction was restrained and even Brahms himself was not happy with some details. Thus 15 years after the first performance he rigorously revised theserenade.?Henle are now publishing this definitive version from 1875 that was ?new revised by the author? as a study score with the musical text from the Brahms Complete Edition.

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Treasury of piano music by great Norwegian composer, including the perennial favorites, Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 and the Holberg Suite, as well as a rich selection of other pieces: Vier Stucke, Op. 1, Humoresker, Op. 6, Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7, and many others. Content : Four Pieces [Vier Stücke], Op. 1 (dedicated to E. F. Wenzel) I. Allegro con leggerezza II. Non Allegro e molto espressivo III. Mazurka IV. Allegretto con moto Poetic Tone-Pictures [Poetiske tonebilleder], Op. 3 (dedicated to Benjamin Feddersen) I. Allegro, ma non troppo II. Allegro cantabile III. Con moto IV. Andante con sentimento V. Allegro moderato VI Allegro scherzando Humoresques [Humoresker], Op. 6 (dedicated to Rikard Nordraak) I. Tempo di Valse II. Tempo di Menuetto ed energico III. Allegretto con grazia IV. Allegro alla burla Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7 (dedicated to Niels W. Gade) Allegro moderato Andante molto Alla Menuetto, ma pocco più lento Finale Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, Arranged for Solo Piano (dedicated to Edmund Neupert) Allegro molto moderato Adagio Allegro moderato e molto marcato Four Album Leaves [Fire albumblade], Op. 28 (dedicated to Minna Petersen) I. Allegro con moto II. Allegretto espressivo III. Vivace IV. Andantino serioso Two Elegiac Melodies [Zwei elegische Melodien], Op. 34 (dedicated to Heinrich von Herzogenberg; arrangement of a work for string orchestra based on the songs Op. 33, nos. 3 and 2) I. Heart's Wounds [Herzwunden] II. Last Spring [Letzter Frühling] From Holberg's Time [Fra Holbergs tid; Holberg Suite], Op. 40 (dedicated to Erika Lie-Nissen) I. Praeludium II. Sarabande III. Gavotte IV. Air V. Rigaudon Piano Pieces after His Own Songs [Klavierstücke nach eigenen Liedern] (I), Op. 41 I. Lullaby [Wiegenlied] II. Little Haakon [Klein Haakon] III. I Love Thee [Ich liebe dich] IV. She Is So White [Wenn einst sie lag an meiner Brust/Sie ist so weiss] V. The Princess [Die Prinzessin] VI. To Springtime [An den Lenz] Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (arrangement of orchestral work) I. Morning Mood [Morgenstimmung] II. Åse's Death [Åses Tod] III. Anitra's Dance [Anitras Tanz] IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King [In der Halle des Bergkönigs] Piano Pieces after His Own Songs [Klavierstücke nach eigenen Liedern] (II), Op. 52 I. A Mother's Grief [Mutterschmerz] II. The First Meeting [Erstes Begegnen] III. The Poet's Heart [Des Dichters Herz] IV. Solvejg's Song [Solvejgs Lied] V. Love [Liebe] VI. The Old Mother [Die alte Mutter] Two Melodies [Zwei Melodien], Op. 53 (dedicated to Franz Neruda; arrangement of a work for string orchestra based on the songs Op. 33, no. 12, and Op. 21, no I. Norwegian [Norwegisch] II. The First Meeting [Erstes Begegnen] Peer Gynt Suite No.2, Op 55 (arrangement of orchestral work) I. Ingrid's Lament [Ingrids Klage] II. Arabian Dance [Arabischer Tanz] III. Peer Gynt's Return Home [Peer Gynts Heimkehr] IV. Solvejg's Song [Solvejgs Lied] Moods [Stimmungen], Op. 73 I. Resignation II. Scherzo-Impromptu III. Night Ride [Natligtridt] IV. Folksong [Folketone] V. Study [Studie] (Hommage à Chopin) VI. Students' Serenade [Studenternes serenade] VII. The Mountaineer's Song [Lual?t] Nordraak's Funeral March [Sörgemarsch over Rikard Nordraak], WoOp. Three Piano Pieces [Drei Klavierstückel], WoOp. I. White Clouds [Hvide skyer] II. Gnomes' Tune [Tusselsl?t] III. The Dance Goes On [Dansen går]

Good work for examinations and recitals by an important British composer. Duration c.6'. AMEB (Australian Syllabus) 2004. Programme notes as follows:Lennox Berkeley was born in 1903 and died in 1989. After reading modern languages at Oxford he had no intention of becoming a composer until he met Ravel in 1926 who encouraged him to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He stayed in Paris until 1932 developing his own musical language. In 1936 after the death of his mother he went to Barcelona for the International Society for Contemporary Music festival where he met Benjamin Britten. The two lived together at Snape in Suffolk for a while until the outbreak ofwar before Berkeley moved back to London to work for the BBC. Here he met his future wife Freda Bernstein. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1946 until 1968 where his pupils included Richard Rodney Bennett Nicholas Maw and John Tavener among others. He was knighted in 1974. In early February 1971 I was playing in a concert at St. John's Smith Square London then only relatively recently restored as a superb venue for music. The programme which I believe was being broadcast included Berkeley's Serenade Op.12. It was a work I had always enjoyed playing and was standard string orchestra repertoire at the time. There was initially no platform at St. John's and so the audience sat virtually on top of the performers. So close were they on this occasion that I had to ask for a little more room in order to play. At the end of the piece the orchestra acknowledged the applause and the gentleman who I had all but practically decapitated with my over-enthusiastic playing stood up and took a bow. I had been almost playing in Lennox Berkeley's lap! The opportunity was too good to miss and I wasted little time in introducing myself. Mr Berkeley said that he had been fascinated by my playing and asked me to write to him about a possible commission.This I did on 6 February mentioning that