for Viola 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. 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 fromthe 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 editionWith an unmarked Urtext partWith a second part including fingering and bowing based on the practices of contemporaries of BrahmsWith an extensive Performance Practice

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Edition Urtext, Brochée. Par REGER MAX. Tout comme Brahms dans son opus 120, Reger prévit pour sa Sonate op. 107 deux instruments solistes différents: 'Je vais arranger la partie de clarinette pour l'alto également, afin que l'on puisse également exécuter la pièce sous cette forme' (lettre à son éditeur). Il ne voulait en aucun cas laisser l'aménagement de la partie d'alto à la maison d'édition, car il fallait changer ici ou là quelques liaisons et octavier certains passages - 'je suis le seul à pouvoir faire ce travail!' La tessiture médiane très sonore de l'alto est proche des sonorités de la clarinette, mais confère toutefois à l'oeuvre un coloris tout particulier. Les doigtés destinés à faciliter l'exécution de cette musique et les coups d'archet mis dans cette édition Urtext seront appréciés des altistes. / Date parution : 2011-09-23/ Répertoire / Alto et Piano