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. It remains unclear when exactly Brahms drafted viola parts to his two sonatas. In any case the viola and clarinet versions of the works were first published by Simrock at the same time in 1895. Today there is no doubt about Brahms' authorship of the viola parts. They include important differences from the clarinet original in order to do justice to this string instrument.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 often surprising insight into musical interpretation of the German Romantic Era in general.- A pioneering Urtext edition- With an unmarked Urtext part- With a second part including fingering and bowing based on the practices of contemporaries of Brahms- With an extensive Performance Practice Commentary- For further information on Romantic performance practice we recommend the text booklet: 'Performance Practices in Johannes Brahms' Chamber Music?, BA 9600 / Alto Et Piano

For Piano, Violin And Horn (Viola / Violoncello). Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. L' instrumentation inhabituelle de ce trio - cor, violon et piano - a de bonne heure fait l' objet de spéculations au sujet d' un arrière-plan extramusical. Le biographe Max Kalbeck y voyait par exemple une plainte du compositeur, qui venait de perdre sa mère, parce que dans son enfance le petit Brahms aurait joué à celle-ci des chants populaires au cor. Ce qui est indiscutable, c' est que le compositeur adorait la sonorité du cor naturel qui lui a inspiré quelques-unes de ses plus belles mélodies. Son Trio op. 40 est à juste titre porté aux nues par tous les cornistes auxquels l' édition Urtext de Henle offre désormais une base idéale pour étudier et interpréter ce chef-d' oeuvre. L' édition reprend le texte musical des nouvelles oeuvres complètes de Brahms, garantie d' une fidélité aux sources et d' une conformité aux recherches les plus récentes. Le pianiste Klaus Schilde a rajouté de précieux doigtés dans la partie de piano. On trouvera en outre les parties instrumentales des versions alternatives (alto ou violoncelle à la place du cor) qui avaient la bénédiction de Brahms./ Répertoire / Piano, Violon et Cor ou Alto ou Violoncelle

Study Score. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Après l'édition Urtext nouveau sextuor à cordes de Brahms en op si bémol majeur. 18 (BA 9419, publié en Février 2011), Barenreiter présente maintenant l'édition Urtext nouvelles du sextuor à cordes en sol majeur op. 36. Ces deux sextuors à cordes de Johannes Brahms figurent parmi les points forts de la chaîne de répertoire romantique et certains de la musique de chambre les plus populaires de tous les travaux. Christopher Hogwood a pris toutes les sources connues en considération, y compris les versions pour piano à deux et quatre mains par le compositeur écrit ainsi que d'un ensemble de pièces contemporaines du spectacle qui offre variantes et des idées en pratique la performance durant la vie de Brahms. Le score étude inclut les pages de télécopie, un avant-propos (Ger / Eng) et un commentaire critique (Eng) sur le travail et l'histoire de la composition. / Répertoire / Violon, Alto et Violoncelle

We owe a debt of gratitude to the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld for making the elderly Brahms so interested in his instrument. In the 1890s the composer wrote the Trio op. 114, the Quintet op. 115 and the Sonatas op. 120 - three gems in the clarinet chamber music repertoire. Brahms also provided a part for viola as an alternative to the clarinet. The revision of our edition of the viola version of opus 120 is based on the musical text of the New Brahms Complete Edition and in many respects contains significant improvements: we were able to consult the autograph for the first time - the newly set piano score now contains the viola part - and viola players can benefit from fingerings and bowings by Tabea Zimmermann in the solo part. / Alto Et Piano

with critical report. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. With Critical Report/ Répertoire / Eich, Katrin