Op. 34-Bärenreiter?s scholarly-critical edition of Brahms? popular Quintet in F minor for piano and strings contains everything a cutting edge Urtext edition is meant to offer. It presents a solid and well researched musical text based on Brahms? autograph as well as the first edition and draws on the autograph of the two-piano version (composed six years later) for purposes of comparison. The edition also contains a discussion of the work?s historical context and performance practice as well as a comprehensive Critical Commentary with an evaluation of the sources and alternative readings.The editor Daniel Boomhower deals with the conflicting readings between the stringparts in the autograph engraver?s copy and those found in small print in the first published score as well as in the separate parts for that edition. Relevant readings from the two-piano version appear in the appendix of the Critical Commentary.New Bärenreiter Urtext editionExhaustive study of conflicting readingsNotes on performance practice (Eng/Ger)Informative Foreword (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng)

Piano Quintet in A major op. 81. Very few really important works have been written for piano quintet ? alongside the famous works by Schubert, Schumann und Brahms, the quintet that Antonín Dvorák composed in 1887 certainly numbers amongst them. It shows the mature master at work, who knew how to combine formal unity with melodic ingenuity and sweeping rhythms. With its ethnic-inspired themes the piano quintet has become one of Dvorák?s best-loved chamber music works, indeed even of Romantic literature in music. So it was high time for a Henle Urtext edition ? 60 years after the Czech Complete Edition was published, it was time for a fresh look at the sources, including the autograph in the National Museum in Prague.