This superb selection includes full scores of four great standards of the repertoire: Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34. Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25. Quartet in A Major, Op. 26. Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60. Includes translation of Editor's Commentary.

Score + Parties. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. 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 wellresearched 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 string parts 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 edition - Exhaustive study of conflicting readings - Notes on performance practice (Eng/Ger) - Informative Foreword (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng)descriptive text to this edition will be provided on December 20./ Répertoire / Violon (2), Alto, Violoncelle, Piano

This work was commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for their 50th Music season and 5th Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival. The first performance was given by the Los Angeles Piano Quartet in Tucson Arizona in March 1998.

John McCabe's Nocturnal For Piano Quintet was composed in 1966 commissioned by the Park Lane Group London and first performed by the Lancaster University Ensemble. Duration: Approximately 13 minutes. Composers Note:  The title of this work is a reference to John Donne's poem A Nocturnal upon St Lucie's Day the mood of which is reflected in the quintet. It falls into several movements played without a break: Introduction (Andante) setting forth the main thematic ideas of the music; Nocturne 1 (Allegro vivo) an agitated virtuoso scherzo-like section; a tripartite central part of the work consisting of two Cadenzasframing a brief Interlude the first Cadenza being largely for strings the second mainly for piano and the Interlude harking back to the feeling of the Introduction; Nocturne 2 (Andante molto) a slow piece gradually building to a unison theme on strings accompanied by a tolling piano background. This dies down to lead to an Epilogue ending with a final reference to the work's opening bars. 

Piano Reduction By Michael Kube. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Complétant les éditions du Bärenreiter des oeuvres pour violon et piano, basée sur l'Urtext de la ' nouvelle édition Schubert, ' vient de Schubert totalement charme Rondo en la majeur pour violon Solo et cordes. Le Rondo, daté de 1816 est une oeuvre d'un mouvement contenant solo lyrique ainsi que virtuose des passages et peut également être effectuée avec chaînes seul ou avec un plus grand ensemble à cordes. Notre nouvelle édition contient une introduction informative (Ger/Eng) par érudit de Schubert Michael Kube, qui est aussi l'arrangeur de la réduction du piano. -Une nouvelle édition de Schubert peut-être plus charmant des travaux pour violon - comprend idiomatique réduction pour piano - Urtext de la ' nouvelle édition de Schubert '/ Répertoire / Piano

Arrangeur: Watson Forbes. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Strings/ Répertoire / Violon et Piano