7 Recital Pieces in First Position for Viola and Piano or Two Violas. Edited b...(+)
7 Recital Pieces in First
Position for Viola and
Piano
or Two Violas. Edited by
Lusk, Melissa /
Sassmannshaus, Christoph
/
Sassmannshaus, Kurt.
Stapled.
Barenreiter's
Sassmannshaus.
Performance Score(s),
Part(s). 11/11/11 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA08992.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag
Viola and piano SKU: BR.EB-9441 Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Ed...(+)
Viola and piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9441
Urtext
based on the Brahms
Complete Edition of the
Gesellschaft der
Musikfreunde in
Vienna. Composed by
Johannes Brahms. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
Sonata; Romantic. Sheet
Music. Duration 21'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9441. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9441).
ISBN
9790004189184. 9 x 12
inches.
The two
sonatas of Johannes
Brahms's op. 120 are
widely hailed as crowning
points of the repertoire
for clarinet and piano.
Moreover, in the version
for viola and piano
arranged by Brahms
himself, they rank among
the most frequently
played viola works of the
19th century. They far
surpass in compositional
substance the relatively
few original sonatas
written for these
instrumentations during
the same period.Of the
two fellow works, the
Sonata No. 2 in E flat
major is the more
accessible. Diverging
from the
classical-romantic
tradition, Brahms used
the key of E flat major
here not to express the
heroic or monumental, but
to obtain lyrical,
chiefly restrained
characterizations. The
serenade-like beauty of
the principal theme,
which opens the sonata,
has always been
particularly admired. In
his review of the world
premiere, the renowned
Viennese music critic
Eduard Hanslick, a friend
of Brahms's, raves with
the words it was as if it
had fallen from the
Heavens. The closing set
of variations also
follows with gentle
gracefulness this lyrical
character. However, the
middle movement, with its
tempestuous outer
sections in E flat minor
and the hymnic trio in B
major provides a
passionate and serious
contrast, which allows
the flanking idyll to
unfold its beauties all
the more insistently.
Viola and Piano - intermediate SKU: BT.SLB-02032701 Pour alto & piano<...(+)
Viola and Piano -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.SLB-02032701
Pour alto & piano.
Composed by Johann
Christian Bach.
Classical. Book and
Part(s). Composed 2021.
40 pages. Editions
Salabert #SLB 02032701.
Published by Editions
Salabert
(BT.SLB-02032701).
230
X 305 inches.
French-English-Italian.
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Henri Casadesus was
passionate about early
instruments, as we know
from a number of
photographs showing him
with viola
d’amore, the
subject of a manual he
wrote entitled Tecnique
de la viole
d’amour. The
Concerto en Ut mineur was
first published in 1947
by Mica Salabert. The
first edition gives the
so-called
“originalâ€
part for solo violocello
together with the score
which, according to the
preface, has been adapted
for viola or cello or
violin by Casadesus.
However, stylistic
analysis of the piece,
together with some
musicological research
carried out after the
appearance of the first
edition reveals that the
“originalâ€
version for violoncello,
on which the adaptation
was supposed to be based,
cannot be attributed to
Johann Christian Bach,
but is rather a work
imitating his style
written two centuries
later. In spite of this,
Concerto en Ut mineur
encountered considerable
success and continues to
be studied and performed
by both violinists and
violoncellists
today.